We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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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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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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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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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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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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