Find a place where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

The line expresses a characteristic Campbell theme: suffering is not defeated by direct combat so much as by reorientation toward what is life-giving. “Find a place where there’s joy” suggests locating (or cultivating) an activity, relationship, vocation, or inner stance that feels authentically alive—what Campbell elsewhere frames as following one’s “bliss.” The metaphor of joy “burning out” pain implies transformation rather than denial: pain may remain part of experience, but sustained contact with meaning and vitality can reduce its dominance and integrate it into a larger narrative. In mythic terms, joy functions like a guiding fire on the hero’s path, illuminating and metabolizing hardship into growth.