There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Suddenly 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.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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