It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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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 have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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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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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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