The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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.
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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