You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLArt is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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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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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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