It is within you that the divine lives.
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 goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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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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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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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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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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