Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLSuddenly 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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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