Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLHow 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.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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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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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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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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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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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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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.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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.
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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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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 goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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