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.
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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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