There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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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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When 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.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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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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