When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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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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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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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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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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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 myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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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.
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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