Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLAll we really want to do is dance.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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 god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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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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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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