No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou’ve got to find the force inside you.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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.
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