Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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 big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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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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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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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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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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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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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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