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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou 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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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