Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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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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 god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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