You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLBoth the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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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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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 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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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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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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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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