938 Quotes by Joseph Campbell

To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is - not the quick little excitement, but the real deep, life-filling bliss.

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

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

People say that what we are seeking is in for life. I don't think this is what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive.

Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.

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

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end. The exclusivism of there being only one way in which we can be saved, the idea that there is a single religious group that is in sole possession of the truth—that is the world as we know it that must pass away. What is the kingdom? It lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us.

The demon that you can swallow gives you it's power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.