When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLPeople forget facts, but they remember stories.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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