I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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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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When 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.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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