The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLEternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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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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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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