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 CAMPBELLLife is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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