Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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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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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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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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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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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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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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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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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