We’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.
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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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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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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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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