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 CAMPBELLThe Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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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 quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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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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