Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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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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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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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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