Regrets are illuminations come too late.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou’ve got to find the force inside you.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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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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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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 old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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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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