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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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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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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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