Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLNothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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 myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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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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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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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