Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLApocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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 Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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