No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLVegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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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.
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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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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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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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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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