The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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