You’ve got to find the force inside you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLRespect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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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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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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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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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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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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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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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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