You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

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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.

Joseph Campbell

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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.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Divine Live
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.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Darkness Decision Grace Journey
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Acceptance Oneself Planning Wait
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity
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.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Divine Follow God Message Power Word
The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Artist Function Problem Spiritual
We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Achievement Alive Association Engagement Purpose
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Energy Human Manifestation Secret
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Compassionate Fundamental Religious Thinking
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 CAMPBELL

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 CAMPBELL

Break Live Problem Talk Tree World Wrong
It is within you that the divine lives.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

It is within you that the divine lives.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Divine Live Spiritual
You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Creativity Leaving Rule
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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History True
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Experience Function
If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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