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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLEternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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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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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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