The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLI 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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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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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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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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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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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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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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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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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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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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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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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