There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the … - Joseph Campbell

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Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

Joseph Campbell

There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.

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

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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

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You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives you life, breadth, and depth.

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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.

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Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.

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