Do what gives you bliss. Joseph Campbell More Quotes by Joseph Campbell More Quotes From Joseph Campbell The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't! Joseph Campbell dragguidesfate Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare. Joseph Campbell mysteryspeakartist No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold. Joseph Campbell natureinspirationallife 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 inspirationalcommitmentthinking The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light. Joseph Campbell winternightyears Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. Joseph Campbell importanttruthinspirational There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come. Joseph Campbell brokenimaginationrelationship Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. Joseph Campbell egoadventureworld The process of nature cannot be evil. Joseph Campbell processevil 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. Joseph Campbell pathdoors There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path. Joseph Campbell cellstwohands 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. Joseph Campbell consciousnessstudentsfeelings Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement. Joseph Campbell entanglementwingsart 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. Joseph Campbell desiredoorslife 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 inspirationalordermoving Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss. Joseph Campbell mysteryproblempath Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required. Joseph Campbell secretlostinspirational 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 tunnelsinspirationalfall Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you have to do, you do with play. I think a good way to conceive of sacred space is as a playground. If what you're doing seems like play, you are in it. But you can't play with my toys, you have to have your own. Your life should have yielded some. Older people play with life experiences and realizations or with thoughts they like to entertain. In my case, I have books I like to read that don't lead anywhere. Joseph Campbell timefunlife You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you - a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising. Joseph Campbell mindhouseheart
