Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLAll the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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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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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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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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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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