It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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 goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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