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 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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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.
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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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 hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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