The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhere you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYour sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThere 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 goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMyths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThere’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.
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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMyth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLet the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe 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. –
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL