You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLI think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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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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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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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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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 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.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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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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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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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 problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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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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