All we really want to do is dance.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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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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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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