It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYour sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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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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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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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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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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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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