Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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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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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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