It is within you that the divine lives.
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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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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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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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