The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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