Joseph Campbell on fulfill
Joseph Campbell94 quotes“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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Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell 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.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell 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.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell 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 virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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Sophia LorenSophia Loren This life is not about me. It’s about joining hands with Jesus to fulfill whatever tasks He sets before me and to share His love with all He brings my way.
Lysa TerKeurstLysa TerKeurst My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
Orlando BloomOrlando Bloom Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.
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