If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLAll the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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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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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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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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I 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.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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 myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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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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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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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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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