If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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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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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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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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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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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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