If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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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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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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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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