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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

Joseph Campbell

You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Life Move Order Planning Time Wait 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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Boundary God Hero Journey Step 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
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Life Old Oneself Planning Skin Willing
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
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Ability Adventure Heart Inspirational Yourself
The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Fascination Fire Interest Mystery
Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Change Divine End Experience Focus Presence Radiant World Yourself
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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Adventure Bliss Excitement Follow Life Security Yourself
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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Dance Enjoyment Meaning Yourself
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Divine Live
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Burn Happiness Pain Place
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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Follow Kind Life Track Wait Yourself
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Art Carry Wings Yourself
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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Day Decision Victory Win World

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

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