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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou have to learn to recognize your own depth.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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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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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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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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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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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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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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