You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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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’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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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 god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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