if you're trying to slay Moloch in any realm other than the territory of the human heart, you're gonna fail over, and over you might fail in interesting and scintillating ways -- but you're gonna fail
Most important, people sell their souls by running away from the battles they know they should be fighting. Instead, they become mercenaries. Guns for hire. They don’t care which battle they’re fighting as long as the checks clear.
Todd Henry • Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day
In a wasteland, people are fulfilling purposes that are not properly theirs but have been put upon them as inescapable laws. This is a killer. The
Joseph Campbell • The Power of Myth
Our failure to give the devil his due has meant that we have been forced to experience the dark side of the divine in literal and horrific ways, in war, violence, upheaval and disintegration.