The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMyths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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