Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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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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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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