Joseph Campbell was a productive American creator and a teacher of writing, surely understood for his work on near folklore and similar religion.
Here are 22 Joseph Campbell Quotes that will show you how to pursue your bliss.
- The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- 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.
- If you are falling….dive.
- If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
- The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
- The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.
- Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
- 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.
- We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
- Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
- Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
- 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.
- The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth.
- The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
- Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.
- 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.
- Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
- All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
- 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.
- Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.
- The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.