All we really want to do is dance.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhere you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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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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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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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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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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