The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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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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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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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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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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