Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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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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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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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’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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