You’ve got to find the force inside you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThere’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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. –
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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.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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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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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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