Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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We 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. –
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of 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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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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