Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLVegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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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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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.
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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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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for 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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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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