The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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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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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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