You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYour sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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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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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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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 myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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 privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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