Jump. — Oriental Mythology (1962), "Like it or not, the pathless way is the only way now before us." Learn how to read a poem.

I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”, “Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.”, “Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”, “We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. Very few biographies can be described in three words, yet the entirety of mythologist Joseph Campbell's career has often been summed up in one simple message: follow your bliss. It may come gradually.”, “The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe”, “It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is.”, “The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization.”, “All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.”, “When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die..”, “Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”, “Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people’s religion. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path.

For its symbols (whether in the tangible form of images or in the abstract form of ideas) touch and release the deepest centers of motivation, moving literate and illiterate alike, moving mobs, moving civilizations.”, “Myth must be kept alive.

You'll find the hashtag, #followyourbliss, on too many Instagram posts featuring yogis on beaches and mountaintops to count. 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…. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies."

This is a great resource as I prepare for our next pilgrimage! With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens.”, “He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.”, “And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here’s the place to have the experience.”, “Furthermore, we have not even to risk the journey alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. “Follow your bliss. Following is a collection of notable quotes from his talks and published works.

But that takes a lot of … waiting for the right word to come.”, “We save the world by being alive ourselves.”, “All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.”, “Follow your bliss. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out." I’m not superstitious, but I do believe in spiritual magic, you might say. They do! It shows the state as a machine and asks, “Is the machine going to crush humanity or serve humanity?” Humanity comes not from the machine but from the heart. “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.” ~ Joseph Campbell “The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” ~ Joseph Campbell The father was the uniform. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.