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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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