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Best Experience Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- [T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop…
- When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being,…
- How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need…
- When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost.…
- You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you…
- Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what…
- The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available…
More Experience Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila