If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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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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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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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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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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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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