When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMyth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLRespect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou have to learn to recognize your own depth.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLAnd 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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt is within you that the divine lives.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLGods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLSuddenly 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 CAMPBELLHow 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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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 CAMPBELLA hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLove is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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