If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLife 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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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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.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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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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