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 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
My Biggest Hero is
the mythologist Joseph Campbell.His wisdom always comforts and inspires me and seems to say more and more the further I go through life. Here are some things he has said which speak to my soul and I hope can speak to yours as well.
"The priveledge of a lifetime is being who you are."
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
"As you proceed through life following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off."
"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."
"Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one."
"If you follow your bliss you will always have your bliss, if you follow money you may lose it and then you will have nothing."
"He who loves the spiritual cannot despies the
earthly."