I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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