People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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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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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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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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