When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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We’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.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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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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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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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