If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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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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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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