People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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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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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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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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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 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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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