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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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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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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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