You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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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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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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