The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYour sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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