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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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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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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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL