I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhere you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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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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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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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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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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