How we cite our quotes: (Page.Paragraph)
Quote #1
These are dangerous because they threaten the fabric of the security into which we have built ourselves and our family. But they are fiendishly fascinating too, for they carry keys that open the whole realm of the desired and feared adventure of the discovery of the self. Destruction of the world that we have built and in which we live, and of ourselves within it; but then a wonderful reconstruction, of the bolder, cleaner, more spacious, and fully human life—that is the lure, the promise and terror, of these disturbing night visitants from the mythological realm that we carry within. (7.4)
As with everything in this book, it's what inside that counts. And the hero's external exploration is matched by a lot of looking inside to see who he or she is.
Quote #2
The two—the hero and his ultimate god, the seeker and the found—are thus understood as the outside and inside of a single, self-mirrored mystery, which is identical with the mystery of the manifest world. The great deed of the supreme hero is to come to the knowledge of this unity in multiplicity and then to make it known. (37.2)
This what lies at the end of exploration…but is also part of the exploration. In other words, if the hero were simply teleported to the end of the journey, her or she wouldn't gain anything. The exploration brings the rewards.
Quote #3
The effect of the successful adventure of the hero is the unlocking and release again of the flow of life into the body of the world… The torrent pours from an invisible source, the point of entry being the center of the symbolic circle of the universe, the Immovable Spot to the Buddha legend, around which the world may be said to revolve. (37.3)
Exploration here leads to movement, flowing, and a torrent of cool mojo. Notice how Campbell talks about the reward in the sense of moving…the same way an explorer might move through a landscape.