I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLNothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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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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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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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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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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