Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLGod is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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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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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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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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