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The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?


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JOSEPH CAMPBELL The distance of your love is the distance of your life.   Love is exactly as strong as life.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.   You really don’t have a sacre...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Vegetarianism is the first turning away from life, because life lives on lives. Vegetarians are just...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choo...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL You should be willing to be eaten also. You are food body.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to th...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer d...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poign...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The best way to help mankind is through the perfection of yourself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL We must be willing to get rid of
the life we’ve planned, so as to have
the life that is ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Awe is what moves us forward.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to th...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him o...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
t...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL [I have no doubt that I stand here at the very center of creation. Every fir tree, each of its needl...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives sp...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. Yo...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner val...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
JOSEPH CAMPBELL If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, w...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your ow...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

We must be willing to get rid of the l...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL