You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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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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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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 to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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