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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen 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.
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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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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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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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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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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