Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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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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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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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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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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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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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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