When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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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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You’ve got to find the force inside 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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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 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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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.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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