It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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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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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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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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