Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt is within you that the divine lives.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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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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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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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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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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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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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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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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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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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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