At the darkest moment comes the light.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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