Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

Joseph Campbell

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Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

Joseph Campbell


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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell

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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Joseph Campbell


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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


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Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.

Joseph Campbell

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If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

Joseph Campbell


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For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us...

Joseph Campbell


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Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

Joseph Campbell


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Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.

Joseph Campbell

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