Joseph Campbell

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Quotes...

• “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
  
• “Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”
  
• “We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.”
• “When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.”
• “It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”
• “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself”
• “You have to learn to recognize your own depths.”
• “Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”
• "Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy."

Poems...
The Hero Path
We have not even to risk the adventure alone
for the heroes of all time have gone before us.
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.

And where we had thought to slay another
we shall slay ourselves.
Where we had thought to travel outwards
we shall come to the center of our own existence.
And where we had thought to be alone
we shall be with all the world.

“Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.”

Quote by Joseph Campbell