The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMyths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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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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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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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 psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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