If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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There 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.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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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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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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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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