The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLife 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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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We 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. –
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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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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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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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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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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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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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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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