Follow Your Bliss Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Nice, Book

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.122, Anchor

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• 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."

  Joseph Campbell

  Happiness, Self, People

  "The Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell, (p. 193), 1991.

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• When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.

  Joseph Campbell

  Doors, People, Fields

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

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  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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Work, Doors

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

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• The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Appreciation

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• 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

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• The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Creativity, People, Alive

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.183, Anchor

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• 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

  Inspirational, Real, Light

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.44, Anchor

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Space

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• All religions are true but none are literal.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero Journey, Religion

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero, Adventure

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor

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• Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, God, Devil

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.63, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Military

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• The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Dream, Business

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• 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

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• The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Time, Pain

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• 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Reality

  TV Mini-Series "The Power of Myth" ("Episode 2", Chapter 4), 1988.

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Fall, Gold

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• We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Wisdom

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.5, Anchor

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• 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspiring, Success, Hero

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

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