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.
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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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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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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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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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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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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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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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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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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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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