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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.

Joseph Campbell

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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Life Move Order Planning Time Wait Yourself
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Compassionate Fundamental Religious Thinking Yourself
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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Alone Darkness Decision Grace Journey
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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Life Meaning Question Yourself
The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Dreams Move Personality Power World
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Life Lying Recovery Treasure Yourself
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

God Hell Philosophy Yourself
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

God Intellectual Level Simplicity Thinking
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Acceptance Let Go Oneself Planning Wait
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Funny People Scream
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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Divine Live
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Art Experience Goal Life
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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Boundary God Hero Journey Step Yourself
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Devil Encounter God Transformation
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Delight Psycology Water

Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.

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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.

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