When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYour sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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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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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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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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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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