What if life is like a story and you and I are in the theatre of our own minds, looking out the cameras of our eyes, and the story unfolding feels either meaningful or meaningless based on what we decide to make happen in it?*
Donald Miller

Only the person who has faith in herself is able to be faithful to others, because only she can be sure that she will be the same at a future time as she is today, and, therefore, that she will feel and act as she now expects to.**
Erich Fromm

Faith has to be turned into faithfulness for
meaning to be uncovered,
That is,
Ideas turning into action;
Faithfulness to ourselves, yes,
But most especially turned towards others
in service:
The ultimate aim of the quest,
if one is to return,
must be neither release nor
ecstasy for oneself,
but the wisdom and power to
serve others.^

The myth carries our meaning, and
the myth’s quest becomes the device to
explore those things we might otherwise consider
unimportant, frivolous, or even
absurd.

*Donald Miller’s Hero On a Mission;
**Erich Fromm’s The Art of Loving; gender altered by me;
^Joseph Campbell’s Myths To Live By.