People forget facts, but they remember stories.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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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 purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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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 ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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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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There’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.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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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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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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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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