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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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There’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.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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