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 CAMPBELLYour sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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