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.
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 psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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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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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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