The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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 goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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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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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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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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