You’ve got to find the force inside you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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Love 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.
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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 is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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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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