I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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.
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