At the darkest moment comes the light.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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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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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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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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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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