Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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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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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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