The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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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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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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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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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’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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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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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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