You’ve got to find the force inside you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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