Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us... — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Life, in both its knowing and its doing, has become today a "free fall," so to say, into the next minute, into… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like all who have elected to follow, not the safely marked general highways of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us, the labyrinth… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“ The Hero Path We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of all time have gone before… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virtues of loyalty, temperance, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“There is a passage in the Old French Queste del Saint Graal that epitomizes the true spirit of Western man. It tells… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
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… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
