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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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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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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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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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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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