What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLife is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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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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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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