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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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