You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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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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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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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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