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 want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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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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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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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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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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