Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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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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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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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)
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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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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