Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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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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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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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 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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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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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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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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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