You’ve got to find the force inside you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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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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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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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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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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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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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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