The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt is within you that the divine lives.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMyths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLBoth the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLet the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLife is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLOpportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLAt the darkest moment comes the light.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThere’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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen 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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