2 Quotes by Campbell

The hero is the champion of things becoming, not things become, because he is. "Before Abraham was, I AM." He does not mistake aparent changelesness in time for the permanence of being, nor is he fearful of the next moment or other thing, as destroying the permanence with its change. Thus the next moment is permitted to come to pass.

only birth can conquer death - the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new. within the soul, within the body social, there must be - if we are to experience long survival - a continuous recurrence of birth to nullify the unremitting recurrences of death.