Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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 privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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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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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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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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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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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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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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