Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLQuesting… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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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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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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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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