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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLRegrets are illuminations come too late.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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 ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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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 big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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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.
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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