Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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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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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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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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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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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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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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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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 Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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