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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMyth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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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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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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.
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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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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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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