The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLGods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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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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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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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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