The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhat we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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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 learn to recognize your own depth.
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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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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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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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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 privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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