Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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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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