Joseph Campbell Quotes About Bliss

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  • Following your bliss is not self-indulgent, but vital; your whole physical system knows that this is the way to be alive in this world and the way to give to the world the very best that you have to offer. There IS a track just waiting for each of us and once on it, doors will open that were not open before and would not open for anyone else.

  • There's something inside you that knows when you're in the center, that knows when you're on the beam or off the beam. And if you get off the beam to earn money, you've lost your life. And if you stay in the center and don't get any money, you still have your bliss.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.285, Anchor
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.

  • 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.

    "The Power of Myth". Book by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers edited by Betty Sue Flowers, 1988.
  • 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.

  • Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

    "The Power of Myth". Book by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers edited by Betty Sue Flowers, 1988.
  • If you have the guts to follow the risk...if one follows what I call one's "bliss" - the thing that really gets you deep in the gut and that you feel is your life - doors will open up...if you follow your bliss, you'll have your bliss, whether you have money or not.

  • [Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...

    "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 2), 1949.
  • Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.

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

    Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony
  • When we follow our bliss, we are met by a thousand unseen helping hands.

  • 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.

    TV Mini-Series "The Power of Myth" ("Episode 2", Chapter 4), 1988.
  • The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy-not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call "following your bliss."

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    "The Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell, (p. 193), 1991.
  • Our life has become so economic and practical in its orientation that, as you get older, the claims of the moment upon you are so great, you hardly know where the hell you are, or what it is you intended. You are always doing something that is required of you. Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.115, Anchor
  • If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

  • 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.

    "The Power of Myth".
  • The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.44, Anchor
  • Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

  • Do what gives you bliss.

  • The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . . In the Middle Ages, that was the kind of marriage that was sanctified by the Church. And so the troubadour idea of real person-to-person Amor was very dangerous. . . . It is in direct contradiction to the way of the Church. The word AMOR spelt backwards is ROMA, the Roman Catholic Church, which was justifying marriages that were simply political and social in their character. And so came this movement validating individual choice, what I call following your bliss.

  • Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

  • To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.

  • For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor
  • Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.115, Anchor
  • The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

  • Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

    "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (The Message of the Myth)". TV Mini-Series, June 22, 1988.
  • At the darkest moment comes the light.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.44, Anchor
  • When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.

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