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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.

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  Success, Jobs, Character

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• You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

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  Mature, Authority

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

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  Hero, Journey, Self

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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, Work, Doors

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

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• If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

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  Hero Journey, Way, Realizing

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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.

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  Inspirational, Journey, World

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

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

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  Creativity, Fixed, Behinds

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.194, 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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• God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

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  God, Simple, Intellectual

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• The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant.

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  Significant, Importance, Objects

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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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• Eternity is not a long time; rather, it is another dimension. It is that dimension to which time-thinking shuts us. And so there never was a creation. Rather, there is a continuous creating going on. This energy is pouring into every cell of our being right now, every board and brick of the buildings we sit in, every grain of sand and wisp of wind.

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  Thinking, Cells, Wind

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2003). “Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal”, p.52, New World Library

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• Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, "Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out the best thing that's in you." So many people who are really in deep analysis look as though and act as though they have been filleted. There's no bone there, there's no stuff! How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

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  Inspirational, People, Ego

  "The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work".

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• Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory is in the interests of one group of humanity, or one ideal for humanity. But humanity-my heavens, that's what proper art renders. We have a paradox. Going into the deepest aspects of inner space connects you with something that is the most vital for the outer realm.

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  Art, Space, Political

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• Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon, but to our ignorance and complacency coming to an end.

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  Ignorance, Doe, Complacency

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• God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.

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  God, Able, Enjoy

  "The Power of Myth".

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• There's something inside you that knows when you're in the center, that knows when you're on the beam or off the beam. And if you get off the beam to earn money, you've lost your life. And if you stay in the center and don't get any money, you still have your bliss.

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  Bliss, Lost, Beam

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.285, Anchor

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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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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

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

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• If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Stories

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• The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance.

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  Ocean, Games, Play

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• Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.

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  Artist, Mystery, Speak

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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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• 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."

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  Happiness, Self, People

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

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• Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which is available to his senses. There is a pertinent saying in one of the Upanishads: When before the beauty of a sunset or of a mountain you pause and exclaim, ‘Ah,’ you are participating in divinity. Such a moment of participation involves a realization of the wonder and sheer beauty of existence. People living in the world of nature experience such moments every day. They live in the recognition of something there that is much greater than the human dimension.

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  Inspirational, Sunset, People

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.258, Anchor

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