The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLApocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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 privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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