You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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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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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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