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Following your bliss is not self-indulgent, but vital; your whole physical system knows that this is the way to be alive in this world and the way to give to the world the very best that you have to offer. There IS a

Following your bliss is not self-indulgent, but vital; your whole physical system knows that this is the way to be alive in this world and the way to give to the world the very best that you have to offer. There IS a track just waiting for each of us and once on it, doors will open that were not open before and would not open for anyone else.

Joseph Campbell
Doors, Self, Track

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
Negative, Looks, Moments

Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you have to do, you do with play. I think a good way to conceive of sacred space is as a playground. If what you're doing seems like play, you are in it. But you can't play with my toys, you have to have your own. Your life should have yielded some. Older people play with life experiences and realizations or with thoughts they like to entertain. In my case, I have books I like to read that don't lead anywhere.

Joseph Campbell
Life, Time, Fun

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.

Joseph Campbell
Cells, Hands, Two
Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.

Joseph Campbell
Fall, Successful, Compassion

Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Block, Crazy

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
Inspirational, Happiness, Wisdom
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.5, Anchor

When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.

Joseph Campbell
Doors, People, Fields
Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

Follow your inner heart and the world moves in and helps.

Joseph Campbell
Moving, Heart, World

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

Joseph Campbell
Religious, Thinking, Compassion

Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.

Joseph Campbell
Eye, Focus, Done

If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Careers, Bliss
Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

Joseph Campbell
Dark, Night, Soul
Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.27, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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
Inspirational, Life, Letting Go

You've got to find the force inside you.

Joseph Campbell
Intuition, Force
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.182, Anchor

If you have the guts to follow the risk...if one follows what I call one's "bliss" - the thing that really gets you deep in the gut and that you feel is your life - doors will open up...if you follow your bliss, you'll have your bliss, whether you have money or not.

Joseph Campbell
Doors, Risk, Bliss

There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one was a man, and he drank water; and one was a demon, and he drank filth. What you get is a function of your own consciousness.

Joseph Campbell
Men, Rivers, Water
Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2003). “Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal”, p.46, New World Library

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

Joseph Campbell
Quests, Release, Ecstasy
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.14, Anchor

As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny.

Joseph Campbell
Spring, Mistake, Fate
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.42, New World Library

You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

Joseph Campbell
Depth
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.147, Anchor

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

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.206, Anchor

The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, God

The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.

Joseph Campbell
People, Listening, World
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.181, Anchor

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

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.

Joseph Campbell
Life, Track, Waiting

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