If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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 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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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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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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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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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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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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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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