A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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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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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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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There 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.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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