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A hero ventures forth from the world
of common day into a region of
supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces
are there encountered and a decisive
victory is won.


Joseph Campbell

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In myths, the hero survives.
The evil is vanquished.
The world is set right.
Sometime...
V.E. SCHWAB COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT

I was born the day
I thought:
What is?
What wa...
SUZY KASSEM It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.

We all s...
VERA NAZARIAN To make the fastest progress,
Be an absolutely cheerful
Hero-warrior
And take both vi...
SRI CHINMOY SUMMER

the cattails sway
and the bamboo
dances gently into
the brightness ...
TARA ESTACAAN On a day
when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open and the world is full of be...
RUMI WHERE YOUR DREAMS WANDER,
THERE U MAKE SEVERAL BLUNDER,
EVEN IT HURT MISTAKES THUNDER,
MERLIN8THOMAS It may not feel too classy, begging just to eat
But you know who does that?
Lassie, and s...
JOSS WHEDON To get back up to the shining world from there
My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel,
DANTE ALIGHIERI I’d won the world
but like a
forsaken explorer,
I’d lost
my map.
ANNE SEXTON Life is hope.
Hope is faith.
Faith is believe.
Believe is possibilities.
Possibi...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Love is a golden bubble full of dreams,
That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actio...
LAO TZU To harden the earth
the rocks took charge:
instantly
they grew wings:
the rocks<...
PABLO NERUDA A single poem, alone
can turn tides
scatter galaxies
and burst forth with rivers
SANOBER KHAN Conception is a blessed event.
Fertilization is divine intervention.
The development of e...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Tripping and falling are part of what makes living real
Rising and reaching are what make you c...
MANUELA GEORGE-IZUNWA On behalf of Soumya..

You can love me
You can hate me
You can take me
You ...
BINTMALOL On behalf of Soumya..
-Zainab Zubair Malol
You can love me
You can hate me
You c...
BINTMALOL The sea is only the embodiment of a
supernatural and wonderful existence.
It is nothing bu...
JULES VERNE From the house of unbelief
to true religion
is a single breath;
From the world of dou...
OMAR KHAYYáM in a world
full of
temporary things

you are
a perpetual
feeling.
SANOBER KHAN In hundreds of years of wish fulfillment,
never once to the demon’s bereavement,
had a w...
A. LEE BROCK REMEMBER YOUR GREATNESS

Before you were born,
And were still too tiny for
The h...
SUZY KASSEM I am nothing special, of this I am sure.
I am a common man with common
thoughts and I've l...
NICHOLAS SPARKS When it over, I want to say:all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a brideg...
MARY OLIVER Like seasonless fowl we migrate…
from East Coast to West Coast
and back and forth again,...
LENORE KANDEL With fire and sword the country round
Was wasted far and wide,
And many a childing mother...
ROBERT SOUTHEY Creatures of the Darkness
BY VICKI JORDAN

It was world of vampires and demons, wher...
CHRIS COLFER The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has g...
ROBERT FROST Marry me, Rachel.'

'Not yet.'

'Tomorrow, Rachel. Marry me.'

'Maybe ...
EMMA RICHLER [John Parappuram Joseph of Singapore, father of three.
John's sister-in-law called her husband,...
GEORGE JOSEPH I am filled time and again
with a heart-aching wonder
when I think

of the fire...
SANOBER KHAN O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is always a storm before a calm.
There is always a darkness before daylight.
There ...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I feel in every girl there is a spirit,
a wild pixie,
that if let go,
would run and d...
ATTICUS Joseph
Voilà c'que c'est, mon vieux Joseph
Que d'avoir pris la plus jolie
Par...
GEORGES MOUSTAKI REMEMBER YOUR GREATNESS

Before you were born,
And were still too tiny for
The h...
SUZY KASSEM We sat in the car
& the night dropped
down until the
only sounds were
the ...
BRIAN ANDREAS Cast up
the heart flops over
gasping 'Love'

a foolish fish which tries to draw<...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Man, free thinker!
Do you imagine you alone think in this world where life is blazing forth in ...
GéRARD DE NERVAL The Rider

A boy told me
if he roller-skated fast enough
his loneliness c...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Ash, ash —-
You poke and stir.
Flesh, bone, there is nothing there——

A ca...
SYLVIA PLATH When your soul and mine
have left our bodies and we are
burried alongside each other,
OMAR KHAYYáM When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad, CHARLES KINGSLEY Bullshit is as common as lame poetry and more unavoidable than
those armed men who are there to...
SPARROW 13 LAUGHINGWAND Twinkle, twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high
Like ...
JANE TAYLOR Some humans are made to trust in their supernatural Creator(s) to watch over them, make their lives ...
HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN Insomnia

I wonder
If those talks matter
Few done in the clarity of day
Or ...
IRUM ZAHRA If you walked away from a

toxic, negative, abusive,

one-sided, dead-end
<...
LALAH DELIA I grab
a small container
of glitter.

Because this day,
this wonderful,
LISA SCHROEDER do you dare to step in-
to the vulnerable black, stripped
to the soul with human blindnes...
BETH MOREY The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air.

It rings to announc...
VERA NAZARIAN When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a b...
MARY OLIVER How the miracle of our meeting
Shone there and sang,
I didn't want to return
From the...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into...
OMAR KHAYYáM So every day
I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth
of the ideas of God,
one...
MARY OLIVER You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity

The most modern European is you Pope ...
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN When Death Comes

When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when...
MARY OLIVER Worldly Wisdom

Do not stay in the field!
Nor climb out of sight.
The best view ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A Work of Art
... is not a living thing ...
that walks or runs.
But the making of a life...
LOUIS KAHN who are you
really?

you are not a name
or a height, or a weight
or a gende...
M.K The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Soeur Marie Emelie"

Soeur Marie Emelie
is little and very old:
her eyes are ony...
CARYLL HOUSELANDER ON THE DAY I DIE

On the day I die, when I'm being carried
toward the grave, don't we...
RUMI you deserve for
your heart to be heard-
because love lights a
fire in us all.
it...
ALEXANDRA ELLE The heart itself is only a small vessel,
yet dragons are there, and lions,
there are poisonou...
MAKARIOS THE GREAT The ruthless, in the end, are the ones that will succeed.
Those not held down by moral, by law,...
GENERAL GRIEVOUS Love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace) <...
E.E. CUMMINGS The Day is Done

The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Nig...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Though it's fearful,
Though it's deep, though it's dark
And though you may lose the path...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS My child, I know you're not a child
But I still see you running wild
Between those floweri...
ANTONIA MICHAELIS This is an ode to life.
The anthem of the world.
For as there are billions
of differe...
KAMAND KOJOURI Shape clay into a vessel;

It is the space within that makes it useful.

Cut doors and...
LAO TZU The Children's Hour

Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning t...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I haven’t felt the full weight
of the world on my shoulders,
and I haven’t experienced...
KRIS KIDD At birth and at dawn
for each and every day
it triumphs over the eclipse.

It i...
AKILNATHAN LOGESWARAN So it's back once more, back up the slope.
Why do they always ruin my rope
with their cuts...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Words
are powerful
forces of nature.

they are destruction.
they are nouris...
SANOBER KHAN By Woden, God of Saxons,
From whence comes Wensday, that is Wodensday,
Truth is a thing th...
WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing, Eyes;
I wonder if It weighs like Mine,<...
EMILY DICKINSON A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said,
Should vanish from her clothes into her bed,
JOHN DONNE Have little,
Need less:
This is the way
To inner peace.

Surrender is a jou...
SRI CHINMOY The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack. The round world
Should have ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY CIRCLES OF LIFE

Everything
Turns,
Rotates,
Spins,
Circles,
Loops...
SUZY KASSEM A mother's love is like an island
In life's ocean vast and wide,
A peaceful, quiet shelter HELEN STEINER RICE I thought I was growing wings—
it was a cocoon.

I thought, now is the time to step...
DENISE LEVERTOV When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the b...
MARY OLIVER And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything.
Who knows if I’ll be dead the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Drive down any road,

take a train or an airplane
across the world, leave
your o...
MARY OLIVER I grab
a small container
of glitter.

Because this day,
this wonderful,
LISA SCHROEDER Not every day is awful.
Not every day is good.
Despite the way the hours pass
I’m l...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH The.
World.
Is.
Not.
A.
Safe.
Place.
JANDY NELSON An outline, my body, no mass or feeling,
A dark reflection spread from floor to ceiling,
HUBERT MARTIN When you are in troubled and worried and sick at heart
And your plans are upset and your world ...
HELEN STEINER RICE One of the greatest gifts
That life can give to anyone
Is the very special love that families...
CRAIG S. TUNKS

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JOSEPH CAMPBELL If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while wa...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Follow your bliss
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls
JOSEPH CAMPBELL When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relati...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a rela...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL People say that what their seeking is a meaning for life.... I think that what we are seeking is an ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Todos los dioses, todos los cielos, todos los infiernos, están en ti.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, “L...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Where there is a way or a path, it’s someone else's way.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Of all the forms of māyā that of woman is supreme.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Don’t think of what’s being said, but of what’s talking. Malice? Ignorance? Pride? Love?   Th...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The spirit is the bouquet of nature.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The call is to leave a certain social situation, move into your own loneliness and find the jewel, t...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL And so we have…this critical problem as human beings of seeing to it that the mythology—the cons...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The distance of your love is the distance of your life.   Love is exactly as strong as life.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.   You really don’t have a sacre...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Vegetarianism is the first turning away from life, because life lives on lives. Vegetarians are just...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choo...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL You should be willing to be eaten also. You are food body.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to th...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer d...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poign...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The best way to help mankind is through the perfection of yourself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL We must be willing to get rid of
the life we’ve planned, so as to have
the life that is ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Awe is what moves us forward.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to th...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him o...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
t...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL [I have no doubt that I stand here at the very center of creation. Every fir tree, each of its needl...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives sp...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. Yo...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner val...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
JOSEPH CAMPBELL If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, w...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your ow...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

We must be willing to get rid of the l...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL