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.
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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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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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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.
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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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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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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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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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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