Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLArt is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLI don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
JOSEPH CAMPBELLFind a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhat we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThere 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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLBoth the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
JOSEPH CAMPBELL