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.
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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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’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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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