Standing on a whale, fishing for minnows

You can all mixed up with complexes, things like that, but really, as the Polynesian saying goes, you are then "standing on a whale, fishing for minnows." We are standing on a whale. The ground of being is the ground of our being. If we only look outward, we see problems here and problems there. But when we begin to look inward, we see that we are the cause of them all. –Joseph Campbell