All we really want to do is dance.
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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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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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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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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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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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