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Joseph Campbell Inspirational Quotes (296)

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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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I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize
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We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life
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With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)
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The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.
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So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.
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The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.
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When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.
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When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.
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The myth does not point to a fact the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
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We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.
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Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.
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People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.
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Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
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Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
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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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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.
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To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.
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The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.
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