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Quotes About Discovery

Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.
~ Joseph Campbell
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
~ Joseph Campbell
Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.
~ Joseph Campbell
Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.
~ Joseph Campbell
There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you're on the wrong wall.
~ Joseph Campbell
The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It's usually a cycle, a coming and a returning.
~ Joseph Campbell
Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.
~ 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
If you travel far enough, you'll eventually meet yourself.
~ Joseph Campbell
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
~ Joseph Campbell
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
~ Joseph Campbell
Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)
~ Joseph Campbell
Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.
~ Joseph Campbell
The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
~ Joseph Campbell
What does the soul truly want is a story
~ Joseph Campbell
It is, indeed, very little that we need! But lacking that, the adventure into the labyrinth is without hope.
~ Joseph Campbell
Lo que el creativo saca a la luz es algo que estaba esperando ser extraído en todos.
~ Joseph Campbell
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
~ Joseph Campbell
We have to let go of our plans if we are to become the person we are meant to be.
~ Joseph Campbell
Not all who hesitate are lost.
~ Joseph Campbell
Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path.
~ 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