The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMyth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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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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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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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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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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