Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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 ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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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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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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You 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.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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