You’ve got to find the force inside you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLAll the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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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 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.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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 goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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