Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLPeople forget facts, but they remember stories.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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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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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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