Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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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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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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