You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLRegrets are illuminations come too late.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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