And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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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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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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