All we really want to do is dance.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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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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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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