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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMidlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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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 goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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 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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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 very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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