The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt is within you that the divine lives.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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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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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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