The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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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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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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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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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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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 think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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