Regrets are illuminations come too late.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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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 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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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