It is within you that the divine lives.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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Follow 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.
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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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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