The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLFollow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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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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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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 big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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