If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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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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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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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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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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