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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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