All we really want to do is dance.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLife 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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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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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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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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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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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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