You’ve got to find the force inside you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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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 everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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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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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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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