It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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