Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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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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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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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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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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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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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