The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou 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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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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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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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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