It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLI don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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