At the darkest moment comes the light.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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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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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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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 you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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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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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for 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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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