Quotes by Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

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You enter the forestat the darkest point,where there is no path.Where there is a way or path,it is someone else's path.Y — Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There i — Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or y — Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work. — Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
Passion makes most psychiatrists nervous — Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
The image that comes to mind is a boxing ring. There are times when...you just want that bell to ring, but you're the on — Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The se — Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence. — Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
A mythological image that has to be explained to the brain is not working. — Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
The fundamental human experience is that of compassion. — Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life. — Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world. — Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
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 — Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions — Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline. — Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work