Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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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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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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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