What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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