Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLVegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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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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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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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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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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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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