The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThere are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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