If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the 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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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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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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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