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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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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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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