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. –
JOSEPH CAMPBELLEternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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 have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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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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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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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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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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