When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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Nothing 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.
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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You’ve got to find the force inside 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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