If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLHow 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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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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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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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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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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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