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If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
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inspirational
follow-your-bliss
self-actualization
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Joseph Campbell |
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41e625b
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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
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inspirational
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Joseph Campbell |
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8e2d97b
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Joseph Campbell |
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7c3594e
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Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.
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reading
inspirational
advice-for-daily-living
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Joseph Campbell |
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03c62ab
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
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spirituality
inspirational
life-lesson
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Joseph Campbell |
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f1857ec
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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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universe
nature
life
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Joseph Campbell |
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d666a68
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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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Joseph Campbell |
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5cc1e3f
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Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
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Joseph Campbell |
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cd75463
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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myth
truth-telling
story
inspirational
journalism
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Joseph Campbell |
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3fbd3cc
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Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.
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metaphor
myth
religion
believers
theists
organized-religion
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Joseph Campbell |
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8cb18ad
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We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known ... we have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where we had thought to find an abomination we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outwards we shall come to the center of our own existence.
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Joseph Campbell |
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290786a
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Joseph Campbell |
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c921976
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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inspirational
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Joseph Campbell |
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9365558
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A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life,
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Joseph Campbell |
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9678a15
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You enter the fores
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life
inspirational
way
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Joseph Campbell |
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e33c9e0
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You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.
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life
way
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Joseph Campbell |
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df62705
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As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off.
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Joseph Campbell |
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9685cbd
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We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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life
inspirational
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Joseph Campbell |
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232c80f
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We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.
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Joseph Campbell |
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fa186bb
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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metaphor
psychosis
mysticism
schizophrenia
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Joseph Campbell |
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b3ee5e2
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I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
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Joseph Campbell |
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896763a
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Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.
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Joseph Campbell |
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2731813
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You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don't know who your friends are, you don't know what you owe anybody, you don't know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacr..
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Joseph Campbell |
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5c41f33
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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
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metaphor
humor
no-mercy
old-testament
gods
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Joseph Campbell |
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fa2ba8b
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Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.
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inspirational
mythology
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Joseph Campbell |
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1f3b45b
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The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.
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pain
life
growth
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Joseph Campbell |
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6a6a73c
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The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. As he crosses threshold after threshold, conquering dragon after dragon, the stature of the divinity that he summons to his highest wish increases, until it subsumes the cosmos. Fin..
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Joseph Campbell |
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ffb2ece
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Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.
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Joseph Campbell |
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2c4d113
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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spirituality
philosophy
mythology
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Joseph Campbell |
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a512429
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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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death
life
now
eternity
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Joseph Campbell |
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0bd5b4f
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Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.
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Joseph Campbell |
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3e5446f
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I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
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Joseph Campbell |
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82c6264
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Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn't that. That is a relationship for pleasure, and when it gets to be unpleasurable, it's off. But a marriage is a life commitment, and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life. If marriage is not the prime concern, ..
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Joseph Campbell |
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1f526a0
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Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.
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writing
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Joseph Campbell |
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306b6d2
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Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.
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Joseph Campbell |
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46fac9e
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive. [...] But love bears all things. [...] Love itself is pain, you might say - the pain of being truly alive.
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tales-of-love-and-marriage
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Joseph Campbell |
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7c57720
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Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that's what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image. The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets ..
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soul
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Joseph Campbell |
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e4aaa64
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Writer's block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.
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writing
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Joseph Campbell |
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90a4871
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There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message?"
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religion
metaphors
theism
mythology
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Joseph Campbell |
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3f163fc
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Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.
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motivation
personal-transformation
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Joseph Campbell |
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4765d97
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Heaven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the ninth Century B.C. All the gods, all the heavens, all the world, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other. That is what myth is. Myth is a manifestation in symbolic images, in metaphorical images, of the energies of ..
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Joseph Campbell |
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f03bc84
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How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)
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transcendence
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Joseph Campbell |
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7b0c75a
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Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.
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writing
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Joseph Campbell |
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1ecfc5e
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All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.
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Joseph Campbell |