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• Regrets are illuminations come too late.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Regret, Illumination

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.101, New World Library

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• There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.

  Joseph Campbell

  Cells, Hands, Two

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

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• We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Letting Go

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• It is within you that the divine lives.

  Joseph Campbell

  Love, Life, Divine

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• Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.

  Joseph Campbell

  Eye, Focus, Done

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• It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that touches our will system. In Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea he speaks of music as the sound that awakens the will. The rhythm of the music awakens certain life rhythms, ways of living and experiencing life. So it's an awakener of life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Art, Organization

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• Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.8, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now...that source of eternal energy is here, in you, now.

  Joseph Campbell

  Unique, Giving, Facts

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• If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Careers, Bliss

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fall, Successful, Compassion

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• Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

  Joseph Campbell

  Negative, Looks, Moments

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• There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Being Yourself, Privilege, Greater

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• The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Change, Starting Over

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.10, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• All we really want to do is dance.

  Joseph Campbell

  Want

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• Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

  Joseph Campbell

  Law, Survival, Firsts

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.37, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts -- but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Inward, Messages

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.5, Anchor

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• All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is.

  Joseph Campbell

  Evil, Joy, Sorrow

  "Myths to Live By".

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Doors, People, Fields

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.

  Joseph Campbell

  Destiny, Instruments, Curse

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• Everything starts with a story.

  Joseph Campbell

  Stories

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• Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

  Joseph Campbell

  Artist, Perfection, Clumsiness

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• Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

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• The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yes’ to it all.

  Joseph Campbell

  Warrior, Approach

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• The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, God

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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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