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If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Careers, Bliss
Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Letting Go

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.206, Anchor

The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, God

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Inspiring, Stories

Regrets are illuminations come too late.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Regret, Illumination
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.101, New World Library

There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom
Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Pain, Giving
Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that touches our will system. In Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea he speaks of music as the sound that awakens the will. The rhythm of the music awakens certain life rhythms, ways of living and experiencing life. So it's an awakener of life.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Art, Organization

Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Fall, Gold

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Encouraging
Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.8, Joseph Campbell Foundation

If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Giving, Want
Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.17, Joseph Campbell Foundation

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Courage, Morning
Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.9, Joseph Campbell Foundation

Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Men, Monsters
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.8, Anchor

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Art, People
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.107, Anchor

You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Hero Journey, Way

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
Inspirational, Moving, Order

Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, "Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out the best thing that's in you." So many people who are really in deep analysis look as though and act as though they have been filleted. There's no bone there, there's no stuff! How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, People, Ego
"The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work".

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Space

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Faith

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Change, Fate
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.16, Anchor

Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Discovery, People
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.16, Anchor

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Courage, Pain

We save the world by being alive ourselves.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, World, Alive

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