You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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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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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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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