Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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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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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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