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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of 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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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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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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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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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