The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLPeople forget facts, but they remember stories.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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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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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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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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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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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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