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 CAMPBELLSurvival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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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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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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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.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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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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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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