I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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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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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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