The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLGods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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