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You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or a path, it is someone else’s path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential.

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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself

~ Joseph Campbell Quotes from A Joseph Campbell Companion

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If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

~ Joseph Campbell Quotes from A Joseph Campbell Companion

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I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

~ Joseph Campbell Quotes from A Joseph Campbell Companion

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This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else’s.

~ Joseph Campbell Quotes from A Joseph Campbell Companion

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What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?

~ Joseph Campbell Quotes from A Joseph Campbell Companion

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God is an intelligible sphere--a sphere known to mind, not to the senses--whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.

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The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.

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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck to its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

~ Joseph Campbell Quotes from A Joseph Campbell Companion

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There’s a major difference, as I see it, between a shaman and a priest. A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom he is devoted is a deity that was there before he came along. But the shaman’s powers are symbolized in his own familiars, deities of his own personal experience. His authority comes out of a psychological experience, not a social ordination.

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