The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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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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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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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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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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