Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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 psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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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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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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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.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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