All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou 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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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