You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou 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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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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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