All we really want to do is dance.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLVegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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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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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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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 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.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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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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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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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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