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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt is within you that the divine lives.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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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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 can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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