The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe’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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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 hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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