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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMyths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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 old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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