At the darkest moment comes the light.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLHow do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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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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