Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLI 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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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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