Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbellwas an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. His philosophy is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth26 March 1904
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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Any life career that you choose in following your bliss should be chosen with that sense that nobody can frighten me off from this thing. And no matter what happens, this is the validation of my life and action.
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To find your own way is to follow your bliss.
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Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.
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There is no security in following the call to adventure.
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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.
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If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living
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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
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Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls
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Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.
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When you see the Earth from space, you don't see any divisions of nation-states there. This may be the symbol of the new mythology to come; this is the country we will celebrate, and these are the people we are one with.
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The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater lifes pain, the greater lifes reply.
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Words are always qualifications and limitations. That's why it is a peak experience to break past all that, every now and then, and to realize, ""Oh...... ah.....
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Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or place. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd.