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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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’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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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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