If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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