Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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.
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Life 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.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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