“Every hero in every good story has to demonstrate a burning desire to do something and be proactive about it throughout. In addition, that hero has a lesson to learn, a change to experience, that is the subterranean story, and in truth the real reason for the tale…
The spiritual goal is why we’re really going on this trip. Just like in life, you may want all kinds of things a better job, a bigger house, the right mate, admittance to the cool clubs but what we’re looking for is much deeper. What we seek is a spiritual connection, the sense of something important happening in our lives, the proof that whether we get what we want or not, there is a point to being here.”