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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLBoth the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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