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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

Joseph Campbell

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Power Service Wisdom Yourself
The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Afraid Yourself
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Creativity Guide Heart Save Society
Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Adventure Ego Fulfill Gift Mystery Yourself
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Beyond Fact Information
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Delight Psycology Water
Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Feeling Moments Negative Positive Strength Yourself
There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Fulfill Important Personal Realization Transcendence Yourself
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Follow Life Mystery Path Problem Yourself
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Hands Path Right Yourself
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Energy Human Manifestation Open Secret
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Sacred Space Yourself
I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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Boundary God Hero Journey Step Yourself
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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Darkness Life Lost Need
We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Influence Journey Person Save World

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