"If you see your path laid out..." - Quote by Joseph Campbell
If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know one thing . . . it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly.
More by Joseph Campbell
More on Path
“One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.”
“Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the road, though ordinary travelers may see only a gap in the paling. His solitary path across lots will turn out the higher way of the two.”
“If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.”
More on Individuality
“I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.”
“Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.”
“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.”