Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLAll we really want to do is dance.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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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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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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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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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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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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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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