Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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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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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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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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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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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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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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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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