Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLEternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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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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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 Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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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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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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 you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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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 old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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 big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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