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.
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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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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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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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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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