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Furthermore, 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

Furthermore, 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; 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; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Hero, Adventure
"The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 1), 2008.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger's lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.

Joseph Campbell
Adventure, Dark, Opportunity

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

Joseph Campbell
Adventure, Outcomes, Heroic

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.

Joseph Campbell
Adventure, Yield, Achievement
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.188, Anchor

Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

Joseph Campbell
Adventure, Ego, World
Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.

Joseph Campbell
Hero, Adventure, Destiny
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.48, New World Library

The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing the way in which the landscape and conditions of the environment match the readiness of the hero. The adventure that he is ready for is the one that he gets.

Joseph Campbell
Hero, Character, Adventure
"Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (The Hero's Adventure)". TV Mini-Series, June 21, 1988.

There is no security in following the call to adventure.

Joseph Campbell
Adventure, Following, Security

The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure - fearlessness and achievement.

Joseph Campbell
Fear, Recovery, Adventure
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.188, Anchor

The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.

Joseph Campbell
Adventure, Watches, Veils

The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

Joseph Campbell
Adventure, Firsts, Given

Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.

Joseph Campbell
Adventure, Mean, Doors

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
Adventure, Thinking, Tears
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.206, Anchor

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

Joseph Campbell
Adventure, Heroic, Life Is

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
Hero, Taken, Adventure

I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you know what they are and how to pay attention to their emergence. My own initiation into the mythic depths of the unconscious has been through the mind, through the books that surround me in this library. I have recognized in my quest all the stages of the hero's journey. I had my calls to adventure, my guides, demons, and illuminations.

Joseph Campbell
Book, Hero, Adventure

Life, in both its knowing and its doing, has become today a "free fall," so to say, into the next minute, into the future. So that, whereas, formerly, those not wishing to hazard the adventure of an individual life could rest within the pale of a comfortably guaranteed social order, today all the walls have burst. It is not left to us to chooseto hazard the adventure of an unprecedented life: adventure is upon us, like a tidal wave.

Joseph Campbell
Wall, Fall, Adventure
Joseph Campbell (1988). “Myths, dreams, and religion”, Spring Pubns

This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.

Joseph Campbell
Adventure, Reflection, Artist
Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.12, New World Library

Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the youngest or despised child who becomes the master of extraordinary powers-prevails over his personal oppressors, the latter brings back from his adventure the means for the regeneration of his society as a whole.

Joseph Campbell
Children, Hero, Adventure

The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.

Joseph Campbell
Adventure, Mean, Smell

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
Adventure, Groups, Would Be
Joseph Campbell (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, New World Library

The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.

Joseph Campbell
Hero, Adventure, Ready
Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Hero, Adventure
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor

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