The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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