Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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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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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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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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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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.
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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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