It is within you that the divine lives.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLife is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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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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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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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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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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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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