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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLA hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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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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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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