At the darkest moment comes the light.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMyths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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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 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 Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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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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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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