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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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• 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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• We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Journey, World

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.183, Anchor

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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.

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  Adventure, Dark, Opportunity

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• Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

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  Inspirational, Life, Space

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• I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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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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• The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Journey, Self

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• We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Fall, Tunnels

  Sukhavati Magazine, 2002, reissued 2007.

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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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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• Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.

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  Food, People, Vegetarian

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• The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ocean, Games, Play

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• If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.

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  Inspirational, Way, Path

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• It is within you that the divine lives.

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  Love, Life, Divine

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• God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

  Joseph Campbell

  God, Simple, Intellectual

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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 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 fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.

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  Inspirational, Change, Fate

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.16, Anchor

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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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• Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.

  Joseph Campbell

  Secret, Energy, Cosmos

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.1, New World Library

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• The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.206, Anchor

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• The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy-not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call "following your bliss."

  Joseph Campbell

  Happiness, Self, People

  "The Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell, (p. 193), 1991.

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• Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Men, Monsters

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.8, Anchor

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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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