black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Joseph Campbell

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
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 CAMPBELL

Alone Darkness Decision Grace Journey
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
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Illumination Late Regret
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Energy Human Manifestation Open Secret
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Darkness Life Lost Need
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

End Expectation Figure Life Movie Question
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Delight Psycology Water
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

History Important True Yourself
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
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
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Life Lying Recovery Treasure Yourself
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Big Hero Herself Life
The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Dreams Move Personality Power World
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Acceptance Let Go Oneself Planning Wait
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 big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Joseph Campbell Quotes