The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLRegrets are illuminations come too late.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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