The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLQuesting… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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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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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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