Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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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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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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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 is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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