All we really want to do is dance.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLife is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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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 old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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