Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLet the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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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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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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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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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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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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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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