Joseph Campbell Quotes About Rapture

Quotes about: Rapture

• 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.

• I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Children, Women

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

• The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Goal, Way

• 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

• 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

• I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Children, Men

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

• I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

• We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.

  Joseph Campbell

  Alive, Rapture, Seeking

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