When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLChange 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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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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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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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