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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• 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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• 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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• 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 experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Heaven, Eternity

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

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• If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Eternity, Hereafter

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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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• At the darkest moment comes the light.

  Joseph Campbell

  Light, Bliss, Moments

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

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• The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Change, Starting Over

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.10, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Journey, World

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

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Positive, Rest In Peace, Rip

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

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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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• The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Bliss, Eternity

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.85, Anchor

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• Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure 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. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero, Adventure

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 1), 2008.

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• Regrets are illuminations come too late.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Regret, Illumination

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.101, New World Library

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  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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Self Improvement, Meaning Of Life

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• Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

  Joseph Campbell

  Following Your Own Path, Steps, Bliss

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• I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Military, Native American

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• How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Ego, Messengers

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.226, New World Library

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