All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLEternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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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 best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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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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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 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 myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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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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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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