It is within you that the divine lives.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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