You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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 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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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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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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