Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLAt the darkest moment comes the light.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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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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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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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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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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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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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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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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