Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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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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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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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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