The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be. To refuse the call means stagnation. What you don't experience positively you will experience negatively. You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential. The goal of the hero trip down to the jewel point is to find those levels in the psyche that open, open, open, and finally open to the mystery of your Self being Buddha consciousness or the Christ. That's the journey. It is all about finding that still point in your mind where commitment drops away.
Excerpt from: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
There is also no security in refusing the call to adventure. It may feel like security, but in the end the bottom drops out from under everyone. So follow your bliss before you fall into the abyss
This. Campbell lights the way.