No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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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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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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When 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)
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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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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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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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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