When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou have to learn to recognize your own depth.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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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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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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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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