When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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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.
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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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.
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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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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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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.
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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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