29 Jun 2007 @ 19:18, by Jose Overalles

Quote of the day:

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls”
-Joseph Campbell

More Joseph Campbell quotes:

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
-Joseph Campbell

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

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
-Joseph Campbell

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

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
-Joseph Campbell

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
-Joseph Campbell

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.
-Joseph Campbell

"Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world"
-Joseph Campbell

Nietzche 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.
-Joseph Campbell

Then when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures followed by wreckage were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You'll see that this is really true. 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

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