Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhat we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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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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