We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.


Joseph Campbell

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JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Follow your bliss
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relati...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a rela...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
People say that what their seeking is a meaning for life.... I think that what we are seeking is an ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Todos los dioses, todos los cielos, todos los infiernos, están en ti.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
A hero ventures forth from the world
of common day into a region of
supernatural wonder. F...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, “L...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Where there is a way or a path, it’s someone else's way.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Of all the forms of māyā that of woman is supreme.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Don’t think of what’s being said, but of what’s talking. Malice? Ignorance? Pride? Love?   Th...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The spirit is the bouquet of nature.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The call is to leave a certain social situation, move into your own loneliness and find the jewel, t...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
And so we have…this critical problem as human beings of seeing to it that the mythology—the cons...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The distance of your love is the distance of your life.   Love is exactly as strong as life.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.   You really don’t have a sacre...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Vegetarianism is the first turning away from life, because life lives on lives. Vegetarians are just...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choo...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
You should be willing to be eaten also. You are food body.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to th...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer d...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poign...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The best way to help mankind is through the perfection of yourself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
We must be willing to get rid of
the life we’ve planned, so as to have
the life that is ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Awe is what moves us forward.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to th...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him o...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
t...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
[I have no doubt that I stand here at the very center of creation. Every fir tree, each of its needl...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives sp...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. Yo...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner val...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, w...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your ow...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

We must be willing to get rid of the l...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.
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