We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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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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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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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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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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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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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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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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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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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