The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThere are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt is within you that the divine lives.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLVegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLGods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLQuesting… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe 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. –
JOSEPH CAMPBELLOpportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMidlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL