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Explore more quotes by Joseph Campbell

"The experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes."

"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."

"The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside."

"Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history or science, it is killed."

"The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply."

"A myth is something that has never happened, but is happening all the time."
Exlpore more Happiness quotes

"Happiness doesn't depend on reality but it depends on perception."

"Happiness can only bloom in the garden of peace."

"Each day should be a day of rejoicing. Give thanks and celebrate in all things."

"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation!"

"It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression."

"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual."

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

"Our main purpose of life is to be happy. Happiness is in simplicity, and the most amazing things about life is that it is so simple."
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