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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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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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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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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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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.
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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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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