There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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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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