The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLNo one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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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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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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