Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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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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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 must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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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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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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