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 CAMPBELLThe ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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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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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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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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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 you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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How 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.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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