All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMyth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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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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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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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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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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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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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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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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