We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLI have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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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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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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