If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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