The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
-
-
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
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 -
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
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 -
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
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