If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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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 follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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