“We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

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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.

— Joseph Campbell

Mythologist

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living (1991), p. 18

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