It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMyth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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.
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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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