If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen 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)
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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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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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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