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 have to learn to recognize your own depth.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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