You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLVegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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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 goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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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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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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