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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Doors, Path

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• You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

  Joseph Campbell

  Knowing Who You Are, Miracle, Conditions

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.84, Anchor

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Arriving

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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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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  Motivational, Pain, Suffering

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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 what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

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  Inspirational, Life, Reality

  TV Mini-Series "The Power of Myth" ("Episode 2", Chapter 4), 1988.

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• What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act - and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

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  Life, Respect, Loss

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• Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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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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• God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!

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  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Garden

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• How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That's where your life is.

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  Mean, Littles, Enthusiasm

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• Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

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  Art, Wings, Entanglement

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Darkness, Lost

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• At the darkest moment comes the light.

  Joseph Campbell

  Light, Bliss, Moments

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.44, Anchor

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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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  Adventure, Outcomes, Heroic

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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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• If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know one thing . . . it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly.

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  Two, Three, Path

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• Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.

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  Food, People, Vegetarian

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• Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship.

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  Giving Up, Mean, Simplicity

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• I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no such thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen.

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  Wise, Courage, Jobs

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• It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

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  Art, Speech, Function

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• I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.

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  Taken, Journey, Firsts

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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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