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 CAMPBELLI don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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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.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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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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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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