You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThere’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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