When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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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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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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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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