Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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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.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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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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