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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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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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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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