Thursday, October 21, 2010

7 Quotes from Joseph Campbell



The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

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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