If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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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 old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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