The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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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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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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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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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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