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.
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 very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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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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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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