Quote by Joseph Campbell
He said myths and mythology wasnt to give meaning to life but to g

He said myths and mythology wasnt to give meaning to life but to give us an experience of life, an experience of vitality in being alive. – Joseph Campbell

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The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. – Joseph Campbell

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Were so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what its all about. – Joseph Campbell

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What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. – Joseph Campbell

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Other Quotes from
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. – Roland Barthes

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. – Salman Rushdie

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in mens minds without their being aware of the fact. – Claude Levi-Strauss

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. – Greil Marcus

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