I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLRegrets are illuminations come too late.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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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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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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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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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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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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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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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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