Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLI 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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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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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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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