Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
JOSEPH CAMPBELLGod is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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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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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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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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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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