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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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 problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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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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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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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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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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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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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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 much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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