The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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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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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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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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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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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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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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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