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.
Love is a friendship set to music. Check out our awesome collection of Funny Friendship Quotes
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. Check out our awesome collection of Funny Relationship Quotes
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.
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 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. Joseph Campbell Power Of Myth Quotes
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.
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.
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. 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. Check out our awesome collection of Funny Religious Jokes
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don’t bother to brush it off. Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance. Having a sense of humor saves you.
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. Joseph Campbell Power Of Myth Quotes
We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
I think the person who takes a job in order to live – that is to say, for the money – has turned himself into a slave. Check out our awesome collection of Funny Money Quotes
I don’t have to have faith, I have experience.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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 Power Of Myth Quotes
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn’t that. That is a relationship for pleasure, and when it gets to be unpleasurable, it’s off. But a marriage is a life commitment, and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life. Check out our awesome collection of Funny Marriage Jokes
When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
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.
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
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