“The Hero Path" by Joseph Campbell

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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.”


It seems near impossible to say so much in so few words. Campbell demonstrates what I like to think of as a "cosmic connection." Of course, I don't pretend to understand such mysteries, but possibly this is what the ancients understood as drawing from the well of "the Christ", or "Buddha nature" or "Tao."

~Keith

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