The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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