You’ve got to find the force inside you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLRegrets are illuminations come too late.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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