There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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 myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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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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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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