If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLAll we really want to do is dance.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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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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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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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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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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