Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
JOSEPH CAMPBELLAll we really want to do is dance.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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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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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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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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