You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLApocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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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 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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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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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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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