Furthermore, 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 has thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world.
-Joseph Campbell
This quote speaks many messages and idea’s and has a lot of power in a few sentences. Joseph has many things he is trying to say. The first is even though the labyrinth of life seems huge and unsolvable and completely new to us, every single other hero, or person, in this world of all history has gone through the same labyrinth. He says that if we just follow the path of those before. He also says that where we find an abomination, or false words, we shall find a god, and truth and goodness. The second important message is that when we try to slay, or harm others, we shall only slay or harm ourselves. In this he is saying that the only one we can hurt is ourselves and we are the only ones who can hurt ourselves. Because of this we shouldn’t try to harm each other and love each other because then all of us will be so much less hurt. The third is that we are never really alone and that in our loneliest moments we can know that we have the whole world with us.
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