Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou have to learn to recognize your own depth.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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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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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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