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. –
JOSEPH CAMPBELLFind a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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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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