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• Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Heroic, Life Is

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• You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Feelings, Attention

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

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• Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain but to handle the life that arises... If you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing... The demon that you swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.

  Joseph Campbell

  Pain, Knowing Who You Are, Giving

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• A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment.

  Joseph Campbell

  Women, Giving, Birth

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.104, Anchor

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• If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, World, Want

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• We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Intuition, Depth, May

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.147, Anchor

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• Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.

  Joseph Campbell

  Differences, Decision, Fewer

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• It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Creative, Guides

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• The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

  Joseph Campbell

  Past, Journey, Compassion

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• Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Spiritual, Clue

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

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• You may have success in life, but then just think of it - what kind of life was it? What good was it - you've never done the thing you wanted to do in all your life. I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Soul, Feelings

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.147, Anchor

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• The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Creativity, People, Alive

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

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• Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

  Joseph Campbell

  Positive, Rest In Peace, Rip

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

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• If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Giving, Want

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.17, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Cutting, Thinking, Long

  "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (The Message of the Myth)". TV Mini-Series, June 22, 1988.

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• You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Depth

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.147, Anchor

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• Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Space

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• Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

  Joseph Campbell

  Bliss, Poet, Lifestyle

  "The Power of Myth".

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• Art is the clothing of a revelation

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Revelations, Art Is

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• The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Change, Fate

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.16, Anchor

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• Could God exist if nobody else did? No. That’s why gods are very avid for worshipers. If there is nobody to worship them, there are no gods. There are as many gods as there are people thinking about God. In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours. The god you worship is the god you deserve.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Avid, People

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• What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Courage, Pain

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• When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.27, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Victory, World

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.23, 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, People, Ego

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

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