Regrets are illuminations come too late.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLRespect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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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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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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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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