It is within you that the divine lives.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLet the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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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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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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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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.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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