I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe 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. –
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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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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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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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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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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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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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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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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