Joseph Campbell Quotes: "Follow your bliss"
Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. His philosophy is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss."
Joseph Campbell Quotes:
Joseph Campbell Quotes
1. The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.
― Joseph Campbell
2. I don’t have to have faith, I have experience.
― Joseph Campbell
3. All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
― Joseph Campbell
4. If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.
― Joseph Campbell
5. The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
― Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
6. Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
― Joseph Campbell
7. Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be. If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else.
― Joseph Campbell
8. Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
― Joseph Campbell
9. Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
― Joseph Campbell
10. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.
― Joseph Campbell
11. Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.
― Joseph Campbell
12. It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
― Joseph Campbell
13. Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
― Joseph Campbell
14. We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
― Joseph Campbell
15. The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
― Joseph Campbell
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