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If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Journey

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Change

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Self Improvement, Meaning Of Life

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Motivational, Military

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Being Yourself, Appreciation

The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.' And so it starts.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

If 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
Inspirational, Work, Doors
"The Power of Myth". Book by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers edited by Betty Sue Flowers, 1988.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, God, Spiritual

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
Inspirational, Life, Happiness

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Change, Positive
Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2004). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation”, p.104, New World Library

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Change, Starting Over
Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.10, Joseph Campbell Foundation

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Hero, Adventure
"The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 1), 2008.

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Commitment, Thinking

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.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Arriving

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Happiness

We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Fall, Tunnels
Sukhavati Magazine, 2002, reissued 2007.

If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Way, Path

Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which is available to his senses. There is a pertinent saying in one of the Upanishads: When before the beauty of a sunset or of a mountain you pause and exclaim, ‘Ah,’ you are participating in divinity. Such a moment of participation involves a realization of the wonder and sheer beauty of existence. People living in the world of nature experience such moments every day. They live in the recognition of something there that is much greater than the human dimension.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Sunset, People
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.258, Anchor

People 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 what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Reality
TV Mini-Series "The Power of Myth" ("Episode 2", Chapter 4), 1988.

We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Journey, World
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.183, Anchor

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Truth, Important

The 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
Inspirational, Time, Pain

Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Block, Crazy

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
Inspirational, Happiness, Wisdom
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.5, Anchor

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