The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt is within you that the divine lives.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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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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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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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