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 CAMPBELLFind a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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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.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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