Joseph Campbell Quotes

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  Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called "the love of your fate." Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, "This is what I need." It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment-not discouragement-you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.

  Joseph Campbell

  Success, Jobs, Character

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Work, Doors

  "The Power of Myth". Book by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers edited by Betty Sue Flowers, 1988.

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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 sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.

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  Morning, Creative, Use

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.115, Anchor

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• The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

  Joseph Campbell

  Caves, Source, Turns

  "A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living". Book edited by Diane K. Osbon, 1991.

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• People forget facts, but they remember stories.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Stories, Facts

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• Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
  The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center.

  Joseph Campbell

  Lying, Caves, Treasure

  "A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living". Book edited by Diane K. Osbon, 1991.

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Journey, World

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.183, Anchor

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• If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.

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  Inspirational, Way, Path

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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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  Inspirational, Self Improvement, Meaning Of Life

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• The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy-not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call "following your bliss."

  Joseph Campbell

  Happiness, Self, People

  "The Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell, (p. 193), 1991.

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• When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

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  Life, Darkness, Lost

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• Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

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  Life, Wall, Ladders

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• No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.

  Joseph Campbell

  Yoga, Positivity, Free Your Mind

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• The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.206, Anchor

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• It is within you that the divine lives.

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  Love, Life, Divine

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• Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

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  Life, World, Opinion

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• The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Journey, Self

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• Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.

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  Food, People, Vegetarian

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• Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

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  Rocks, World, Wave

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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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  Adventure, Ego, World

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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  Doors, Path

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• If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.

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  Hands, Invisible Hand, Path

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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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  Inspirational, Block, Crazy

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• When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We're not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Jobs, Perfect

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