The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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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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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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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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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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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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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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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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