If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLet the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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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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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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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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I 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.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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