Emerson instructed us to "Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul."
Following Emerson's guidance, I offer some of my favorite blasts of triumph. These quotes I draw from A Joseph Campbell Companion and other wisdom by Joseph Campbell.
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If you 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. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
~ Joseph Campbell Quotes
from A Joseph Campbell Companion
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The ultimate dragon is within you.
~ Joseph Campbell Quotes
from A Joseph Campbell Companion
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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
~ Joseph Campbell Quotes
from A Joseph Campbell Companion
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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 Quotes
from A Joseph Campbell Companion
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The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.
~ Joseph Campbell Quotes
from A Joseph Campbell Companion
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People always say what we are looking for is a meaning for life…I don't think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is the experience of being alive.
~ Joseph Campbell Quotes
from A Joseph Campbell Companion
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Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, “This is what I need.” It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment—not discouragement—you will find the strength there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege!! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow. Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures, followed by wreckage, were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You’ll see this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
~ Joseph Campbell Quotes
from A Joseph Campbell Companion
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The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.
~ Joseph Campbell Quotes
from A Joseph Campbell Companion
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
~ Joseph Campbell Quotes
from A Joseph Campbell Companion
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People say that what we are seeking is a meaning of life. I don't think this is what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeing is an experience of being alive.
~ Joseph Campbell Quotes
from A Joseph Campbell Companion
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Experience, Think, Live, Joseph Campbell, Life, People
Love is a friendship set to music.
~ Joseph Campbell Quotes
from A Joseph Campbell Companion
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Now, I came to this idea of bliss because in Sanskrit, which is the great spiritual language of the world, there are three terms that represent the brink, the jumping-off place to the ocean of transcendence: Sat, Chit, Ananda. The word "Sat" means being. "Chit" means consciousness. "Ananda" means bliss or rapture. I thought, "I don't know whether my consciousness is proper consciousness or not; I don't know whether what I know of my being is my proper being or not; but I do know where my rapture is. So let me hang on to rapture, and that will bring me both my consciousness and my being." I think it worked.
~ Joseph Campbell Quotes
from A Joseph Campbell Companion
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Consciousness, Sat, Chit, Ananda, Bliss, Rapture
I’ll tell you a way, a very nice 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. This realization of life can be a constant realization in your living. When you find an author who really grabs you, read everything he has done. Don’t say, “Oh, I want to know what So-and-so did”--and don’t bother at all with the best-seller list. Just read what this one author has to give you. And then you can go read what he had read. And the world opens up in a way that is consistent with a certain point of view. But when you go from one author to another, you may be able to tell us the date when each wrote such and such a poem--but he hasn’t said anything to you.
~ Joseph Campbell Quotes from A Joseph Campbell Companion
This is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers this morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.
~ Joseph Campbell Quotes from A Joseph Campbell Companion
Ramakrishna once said that if all you think of are your sins, then you are a sinner. And when I read that, I thought of my boyhood, going to confession on Saturdays, meditating on all the little sins that I had committed during the week. Now I think one should go and say, “Bless me, Father, for I have been great, these are the good things I have done this week.” Identify your notion of yourself with the positive, rather than with the negative.
~ Joseph Campbell Quotes from A Joseph Campbell Companion
When I taught in a boy’s prep school, I used to talk to the boys who were trying to make up their minds as to what their careers were going to be. A boy would come to me and ask, “Do you think I can do this? Do you think I can do that? Do you think I can be a writer?” “Oh,” I would say, “I don’t know. Can you endure ten years of disappointment with nobody responding to you, or are you thinking that you are going to write a best seller the first crack? If you have the guts to stay with the thing you really want, no matter what happens, well, go ahead.
~ Joseph Campbell Quotes from A Joseph Campbell Companion
There is an important idea in Nietzsche, of Amor fati, the “love of your fate,” which is in fact your life. As he says, if you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing. Furthermore, the more challenging or threatening the situation or context to be assimilated and affirmed, the greater the stature of the person who can achieve it. The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
~ Joseph Campbell Quotes from A Joseph Campbell Companion
“All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time--namely, that 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. When you see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors ill open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”
~ Joseph Campbell Quotes from A Joseph Campbell Companion
“But in doing that, you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes, there’s no doubt about it. The world without spirit is wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who’s on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it’s alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.”
~ Joseph Campbell Quotes from A Joseph Campbell Companion
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
~ Joseph Campbell Quotes from A Joseph Campbell Companion
“Big Ideas” are simply the gems I’ve pulled out of my favorite books/seminars/life lessons. These ones I pulled from A Joseph Campbell Companion
Joseph Campbell : Hero's Forest
Joseph Campbell : Love Your Fate
Joseph Campbell : Your Hair & Fire
Joseph Campbell : Excitement
Joseph Campbell : Omelets
Joseph Campbell : Follow Your Bliss
Joseph Campbell : Jump!
Joseph Campbell : Say "Yes!!"
Joseph Campbell : Phone Call from God
Joseph Campbell : Shedding Skin
Joseph Campbell : Know Thyself
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