A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLOpportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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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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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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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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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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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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