Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou 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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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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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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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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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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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