Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLife 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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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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)
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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