If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all. Joseph Campbell More Quotes by Joseph Campbell More Quotes From Joseph Campbell I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you. Joseph Campbell doe art thinking At the darkest moment comes the light. Joseph Campbell bliss moments light The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it. Joseph Campbell goal way art If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living. Joseph Campbell live-life waiting writing 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. Joseph Campbell focus eye done Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts -- but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message. Joseph Campbell inward messages people Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves. Joseph Campbell compassion successful fall All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you. Joseph Campbell spiritual god inspirational When you go through life ... it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in your 60s or 70s and look back, your life looks like a well-planned novel with a coherent theme ... Incidents that seemed accidental, pure chance, turn out to be major elements in the structuring of this novel. Schopenhauer says, 'Who wrote this novel? You did.' Joseph Campbell elements chance looks Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time. Joseph Campbell nice inspirational book The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating. Joseph Campbell use fire would-be 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. Joseph Campbell snakes journey hero Everything starts with a story. Joseph Campbell stories And that Aha! that you get when you see an artwork that really hits you is, 'I am that.' I am the very radiance of energy that is talking to me through this painting. Joseph Campbell radiance energy talking Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. Joseph Campbell myth metaphor narrative A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life. Joseph Campbell encouraging sight dream Money is congealed energy and releasing it releases life possibilities ... Money experienced as life energy is indeed a meditation, and letting it flow out instead of hoarding it is a mode of participation in the life of others. Joseph Campbell hoarding energy meditation The real important function of the church is to present the symbol, to perform the rite, to let you behold this divine message in such a way that you are capable of experiencing it. What the relationship of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost to each other might be, in technical terms, is not half important as you, the celebrant, feeling the Virgin Birth within you, the birth of the mystic, mythic being that is your own spiritual life. Joseph Campbell real spiritual father Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be. Joseph Campbell rest-in-peace rip positive The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades. Joseph Campbell veils adventure watches
