You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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.
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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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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