Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYour sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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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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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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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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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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