Source: The Power of Myth (book), p.183
Context: Moyers: Unlike heroes such as Prometheus or Jesus, we're not going on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves.
Campbell: But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes, there's no doubt about it. The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.
“We save the world by being alive ourselves.”
“All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.”
“We are not saved because we're good. We're good because we're saved.”
Lufkin, Texas http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/lufkin-texas-jul1997-full.html (July 19, 1997)
In Concert
“We not only saved the world, er, saved the banks...”
" We not only saved the world... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7775515.stm", BBC News, 10 December 2008
Prime Minister
“With our love, we could save the world.”
“You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.”
Source: Dragonfly in Amber
