A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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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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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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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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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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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 goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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