If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLFollow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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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 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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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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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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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