You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou’ve got to find the force inside you.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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