Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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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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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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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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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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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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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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