You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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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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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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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 privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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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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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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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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