I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLI have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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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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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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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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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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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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