If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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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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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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