Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThere’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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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 myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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