All we really want to do is dance.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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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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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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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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