Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLGod is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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 can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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