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 CAMPBELLChange 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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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 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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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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 very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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