When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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All we really want to do is dance.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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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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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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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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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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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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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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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