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.
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 psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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Follow 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.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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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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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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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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