I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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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.
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