Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLGods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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How 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.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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