The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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