Joseph Campbell Path Quotations

Original Experience has not been interpreted for you, and so youve got to work out life for yourself. Either you can take it or you cant. You dont have to go far off the interpreted path to find yourself in very difficult situations. The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience that is the heros deed.

If you can see your path laid outin front of you step by step, you knowit's not your path. Your own path youmake with every step you take. That'swhy it's your path.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

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.

Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's. Each of us has to find his own way.

If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know one thing . . . it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly.

When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.

If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.

If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it's probably someone else's.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, 'Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I'm on the pollen path.'

Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

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