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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen 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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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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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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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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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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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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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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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