Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLI 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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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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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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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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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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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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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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