You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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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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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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