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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

Joseph Campbell

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Life Meaning Question Yourself
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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Body Feeling Soul Stay Student Yourself
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Best Conversation Understand
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Beyond Fact Information
The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Artist Function Problem Spiritual
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself
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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Alive God Inspirational Life Pain Suffering
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space Yourself
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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Alive Believe Experience Life Meaning Myself People
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Art Experience Goal Life
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Creativity Guide Heart Save Society
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Fall Gold Inspirational Perspective Yourself
The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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Fascination Fire Interest Mystery

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