Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYour sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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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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We’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.
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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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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 myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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