It is within you that the divine lives.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhere you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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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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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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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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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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