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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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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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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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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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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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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