01c. 1945 ADFollow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
02c. 1945 ADIf the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
03c. 1945 ADThe goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
04c. 1945 ADYou enter the forestat the darkest point,where there is no path.Where there is a way or path,it is someone else's path.You are not on your own path.If you follow someone else's way,you are not going to realizeyour potential.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
05c. 1945 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
06c. 1945 ADWe'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 / quote ↗
07c. 1945 ADThe demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
08c. 1945 ADIf 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 that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
09c. 1945 ADPeople say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
10c. 1945 ADSit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
11c. 1945 ADYour sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
12c. 1945 ADMyth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
14c. 1945 ADYou become mature when you become the authority of your own life.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
15c. 1945 ADIt may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
16c. 1945 ADIs the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It." (18)Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
17c. 1945 ADThe Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
18c. 1945 ADWe must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
19c. 1945 ADWhen you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
20c. 1945 ADWhen you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
21c. 1945 ADModern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
22c. 1945 ADHow does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
23c. 1945 ADJust 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 / quote ↗
24c. 1945 ADNow I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
