If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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