We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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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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You 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.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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