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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.

Joseph Campbell

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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Divine Follow God Message Power Word Yourself
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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Artist Love Mistake Perfection Person
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Life Privilege Time Yourself
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Force Yourself
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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Goal Heart Broken Life Nature Universe
The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Compassion Journey Purpose Reach Yourself
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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End Expectation Figure Life Movie Question
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Energy Human Manifestation Open Secret
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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Experience Forever Possible Truth Yourself
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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Break Live Ourselves Problem Talk Tree World Wrong
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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Adventure Bliss Excitement Follow Life Security Yourself
No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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Ability Inspirational Oneself Possession World
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
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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Life Old Oneself Planning Skin Willing

I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.

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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.

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