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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure
— Joseph Campbell
When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
— Joseph Campbell
They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure.
— Joseph Campbell
The hero's journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you're in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that's not been touched. So you're at home here? Well, there's not enough of you there.' And so it starts.
— Joseph Campbell
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: The hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.
— Joseph Campbell
I don't think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we're seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive
— Joseph Campbell
Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize the positive values in what appear to be the negative moments and aspects of your life. The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
— Joseph Campbell
The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
— Joseph Campbell
If you are going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.
— Joseph Campbell
The adventure of the hero represents the moment in his life when he achieved illumination - the nuclear moment when, while still alive, he found and opened the road to the light beyond the dark walls of our living death
— Joseph Campbell
Chodte za svojim stastim a vesmir vam otvori dvere aj tam, kde dovtedy boli iba mury.
— Joseph Campbell
The hero is the champion of things becoming, not of things become, because he is.
— Joseph Campbell