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 CAMPBELLWe’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.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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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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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.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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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.
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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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.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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