To become—in Jung’s terms—individuated, to live as a released individual, one has to know how and when to put on and to put off the masks of one’s various life roles. ‘When in Rome, do as the Romans do,’ and when at home, do not keep on the mask of the role you play in the Senate chamber. But this, finally, is not easy, since some of the masks cut deep. They include judgment and moral values. They include one’s pride, ambition, and achievement. They include one’s infatuations. It is a common thing to be overly impressed by and attached to masks, either some mask of one’s own or the mana-masks of others. The work of individuation, however, demands that one should not be compulsively affected in this way. The aim of individuation requires that one should find and then learn to live out of one’s own center, in control of one’s for and against. And this cannot be achieved by enacting and responding to any general masquerade of fixed roles. By Joseph Campbell Quick View Author All Quotes, Joseph Campbell Tag: #carl-jung, #individuation, #joseph-campbell, #roles
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. By Joseph Campbell Quick View Author All Quotes, Joseph Campbell Tag: #wisdom
Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be. If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else. By Joseph Campbell Quick View Author All Quotes, Joseph Campbell Tag: #joseph-campbell
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s. By Joseph Campbell Quick View Author All Quotes, Joseph Campbell Tag: #life
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. By Joseph Campbell Quick View Author All Quotes, Joseph Campbell Tag: #inspirational, #journalism, #myth, #story, #truth-telling
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again. By Joseph Campbell Quick View Author All Quotes, Joseph Campbell Tag: #inspirational, #life-lesson, #spirituality
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold. By Joseph Campbell Quick View Author All Quotes, Joseph Campbell Tag: #inspirational
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. By Joseph Campbell Quick View Author All Quotes, Joseph Campbell
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. By Joseph Campbell Quick View Author All Quotes, Joseph Campbell
Regrets are illuminations come too late. By Joseph Campbell Quick View Author All Quotes, Joseph Campbell