The Hero's Journey

After reading the text two Quotes stuck out to me in terms of understanding a hero's development.

Page 16- "The hero is the man of self-achieved submission. But submission to what? That precisely is the riddle that today we have to ask ourselves and that it is everywhere the primary virtue and historic deed of the hero have to be solved."

Page 21- "In thinking of this dream I have a distinct feeling that I did not have to go where I was at all but could have chosen a comfortable walk along paved streets. I had gone to the squalid and muddy district because I preferred adventure, and , having begun, I had to go on. . . . When I think of how persistently I kept going straight ahead in the dream, it seems as thought I must have known there was something fine ahead, like that lovely, grassy river and the secure, high, paved road beyond. Thinking of it in those terms, it is like a determination to be born-or rather to be born again- in a sort of spiritual sense. Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination."