The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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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)
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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