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Way Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them…
- One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to…
- Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you…
- If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.
- There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way,…
- If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.
- The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on…
- The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . . In the Middle…
- There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.
- In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.
- Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience…
- To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the…
- The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing the way in…
- The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
- The insecure way is the secure way.
- The function of ritual... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.
- Could God exist if nobody else did? No. That’s why gods are very avid for worshipers. If there is nobody to worship them, there are…
- You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.
- To find your own way is to follow your bliss.
- If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then…
- All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you don't have to…
- And then he says, "The writer must be true to truth." And that's a killer, because the only way you can describe a human being…
- It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that touches our will…
- A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will…
- Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such…
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- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a… — J. J. Abrams
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen