You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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 dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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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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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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