The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLRegrets are illuminations come too late.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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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.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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