A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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