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Going Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
- Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the…
- If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.
- When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been…
- The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the…
- Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to crush humanity or…
- We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long…
- I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All…
- Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
- Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if…
- Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when…
- The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they…
- There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in…
- If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and…
- Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and…
- You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path.…
- The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
- The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the…
- Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what…
- One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
- Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
- If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.
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