Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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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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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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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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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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