A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt is within you that the divine lives.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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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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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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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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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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 conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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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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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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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 problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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