The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMidlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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 big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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