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Joseph Campbell Inspirational Quotes (296)

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The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say 'yea' to it all.
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When you are falling --- Dive!
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It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.
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When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out.
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Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.
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The perfect human being is uninteresting.
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There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail.
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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.
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The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'
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Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.
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The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Awe is what moves us forward.
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He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.
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The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.
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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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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
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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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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
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For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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