At the darkest moment comes the light.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMyths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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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.
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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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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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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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We 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. –
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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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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