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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLet the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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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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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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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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