You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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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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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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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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