It is within you that the divine lives.
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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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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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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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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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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