It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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