I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou have to learn to recognize your own depth.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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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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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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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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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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