Joseph Campbell on the quietness within

The place to find is within yourself. … The athlete who is in top form has a quite place within himself, and it’s around this, somehow, that his action occurs. If he’s all out there in the action field, he will not be performing properly. … this is true for dance as well. There’s a center of quietness within, which has to be known and held. If you lose that center, you are in tension and begin to fall apart. ¹
— Joseph Campbell

Notes:
¹ Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers, The Power of Myth, (Doubleday, 1987), pp. 161–162.