The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLI think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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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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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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