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 CAMPBELLOpportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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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 within you that the divine lives.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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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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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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