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Quotes About Journey

If there's a way or path, it's someone else's.
~ Joseph Campbell
People can go very badly awry in this individual quest. But when the quest is fortunate, there comes a lifetime of creative innovative action.
~ Joseph Campbell
If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.
~ Joseph Campbell
Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path.
~ Joseph Campbell
T]here is nothing to say about life. It has no meaning. You make meaning. If you want a meaning in your life, find a meaning and bring it into your life, but life won't give you a meaning. Meaning is a concept. It is a notion of an end toward which you are going. The point of Buddhism is This Is It.
~ Joseph Campbell
Follow your bliss, and doors will open for you that you never knew existed. Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls
~ Joseph Campbell
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.
~ Joseph Campbell
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
~ Joseph Campbell
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
~ 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
The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.
~ Joseph Campbell
Chodte za svojim stastim a vesmir vam otvori dvere aj tam, kde dovtedy boli iba mury.
~ Joseph Campbell
the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.
~ Joseph Campbell
Full circle, from the tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb, we come:
~ 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.[6
~ Joseph Campbell
In the Hellenistic period, Scylla was identified with the rock of logic, while Charybdis was identified with the abyss of mysticism. One must sail between—as these are all instructions for moving down through the middle, between each pair of opposites.
~ Joseph Campbell
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 the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. If you are following your bliss you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid; the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
~ Joseph Campbell
If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are—if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
~ Joseph Campbell
Some people are late bloomers and come to particular stages at a relative late stage. You have to have a feeling for where you are. You only have one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.
~ Joseph Campbell
Where you stumble, there your treasure lies.
~ Joseph Campbell
students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.
~ Joseph Campbell
Qué soy? ¿Soy la lámpara que transporta la luz, o soy la luz y la lámpara es mi vehículo?
~ Joseph Campbell
We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
~ Joseph Campbell