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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Doors, Path

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• All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

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• Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero, Adventure

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 1), 2008.

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• You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.

  Joseph Campbell

  Morning, Creative, Use

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.115, Anchor

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• The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Commitment, Thinking

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• Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Wall, Ladders

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• Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, World, Opinion

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• When you go through life ... it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in your 60s or 70s and look back, your life looks like a well-planned novel with a coherent theme ... Incidents that seemed accidental, pure chance, turn out to be major elements in the structuring of this novel. Schopenhauer says, 'Who wrote this novel? You did.'

  Joseph Campbell

  Looks, Elements, Chance

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• The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger's lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Dark, Opportunity

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• Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Arriving

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Knowing Who You Are, Miracle, Conditions

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.84, Anchor

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Mean, Littles, Enthusiasm

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• Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Wings, Entanglement

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• The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Time, Pain

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• At the darkest moment comes the light.

  Joseph Campbell

  Light, Bliss, Moments

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.44, Anchor

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• What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act - and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Respect, Loss

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• You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you - a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.

  Joseph Campbell

  Heart, House, Mind

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• Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

  Joseph Campbell

  Rocks, World, Wave

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• The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dark, Night, Soul

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.27, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Speech, Function

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• Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Truth, Important

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• Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

  Joseph Campbell

  Law, Survival, Firsts

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.37, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Mean, World, Enjoy

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.58, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Mature, Authority

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