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 CAMPBELLQuesting… 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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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