Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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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’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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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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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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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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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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