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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou 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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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