The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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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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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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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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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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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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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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