Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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 old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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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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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 goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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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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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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