"If you can see your path clearly..." - Quote by Joseph Campbell
If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it's probably someone else's.
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“No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.”
“Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.”
“Men sometimes confess they love war because it puts them in touch with the experience of being alive. In going to the office every day, you don't get that experience, but suddenly in war, you are ripped back into being alive. Life is pain; life is suffering; and life is horror - but, by God, you are alive.”
More on Individuality
“And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”
“That's really a part of my nature , it goes along with autonomy and independence of action - it's just that I don't identify with the local group, no matter what it is, whether it's the human species or the American democracy, the nation, the country, religions, political parties, nothing. None of these have my allegiance because I'm not really concerned with what they do. I don't feel a part of any of this.”
“Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?”
More on Path
“There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.”
“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.”
“Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.”