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Joseph Campbell Inspirational Quotes (296)

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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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What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?
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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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What is required is the finding of that Immovable Point within one's self, which is not shaken by any of those tempests which the Buddhists call 'the eight karmic winds': 1-fear of pain, 2-desire for pleasure 3-fear of loss 4-desire for gain 5-fear of blame, 6-desire for praise 7-fear of disgrace [and] 8-desire for fame.
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It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)
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The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between the world of opposites watching your 'play' in the world.Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?
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The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience - that is the hero's deed.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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I don't need faith. I have experience.
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia one was a man, and he drank water and one was a demon, and he drank filth. What you get is a function of your own consciousness.
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Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.
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