Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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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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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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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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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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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 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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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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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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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