Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou’ve got to find the force inside you.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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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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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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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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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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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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