A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living Quotes

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

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

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. If we fix on the old, we get stuck. When we hang onto any form, we are in danger of put...

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now.

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer did: the universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Awe is what moves us forward.

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship. You become mature when you become the authority of your own life. Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change...

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living