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.
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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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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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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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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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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