Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLSuddenly 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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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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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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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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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