You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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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 Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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 everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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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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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’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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