Found this cool quote from Campbell’s Hero w/1000 Faces over on some site:

Refusal of the summons converts the adventure into its negative. Walled in boredom, hard work, or ‘culture,’ the subject loses the power of significant affirmative action and becomes a victim to be saved. His flowering world becomes a wasteland of dry stones and his life feels meaningless - even though, like King Minos, he may through titanic effort succeed in building an empire of renown. All he can do is create new problems for himself and await the gradual approach of his disintegration. “Because I have called, and ye refused… I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirwind;” (Proverbs 1:24-27)

Some other quotes I put together on this topic: Refusal of the Call.