The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThere 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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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. –
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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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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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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