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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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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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 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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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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