Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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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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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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