Monomyth Quotes

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Joseph Campbell
“The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It's usually a cycle, a coming and a returning.”
Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell
“The multitude of men and women choose the less adventurous way of the comparatively unconscious civic and tribal routines. But these seekers, too, are saved—by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millenniums. It is only those who know neither an inner call nor an outer doctrine whose plight truly is desperate; that is to say, most of us today, in this labyrinth without and within the heart. Alas, where is the guide, that fond virgin, Ariadne, to supply the simple clue that will give us courage to face the Minotaur, and the means then to find our way to freedom when the monster has been met and slain?”
Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Kirtida Gautam
“I am not the Hero of this story Bob is

~ Aarush Kashyap”
Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan

Amanda Gorman
“We are desperate to flatten the curve. Oh, how we miss curving into each other.”
Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

“only birth can conquer death - the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new. within the soul, within the body social, there must be - if we are to experience long survival - a continuous recurrence of birth to nullify the unremitting recurrences of death.”
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