It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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