The Hero Journey Adapted from The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell, 1949

THE HERO JOURNEY SEPARATION The Call to Adventure Road of Trials The Road Back Freedom To Live Passing the Threshold INITIATION The Ultimate Boon RETURN

SEPARATION The adventure of the Hero is the adventure of being alive.

The Call to Adventure We must let go of the life we have planned so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

The Call to Adventure Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe

Passing the Threshold Life is like arriving late for a movie and having to figure out what was going on.

INITIATION Find a place inside where there’s joy and the joy will burn out the pain.

The Road of Trials To find your own way is to follow your bliss.

The Road of Trials To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one’s self. Soren Kierkegaard

The Ultimate Boon It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Wherever you stumble, there your treasure lies.

RETURN Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.

The Road Back Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

The Return to Service We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot

Freedom to Live The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe.

All quotes from Joseph Campbell unless otherwise credited.