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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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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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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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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’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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