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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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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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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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 very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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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.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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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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