Quotes from Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation

Joseph Campbell ·  224 pages

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“All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.”
― Joseph Campbell, quote from Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation


“Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.”
― Joseph Campbell, quote from Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation


“In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts round about, and to deify them, as it were, to provide images that relate the everyday to the eternal.”
― Joseph Campbell, quote from Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation


“Maslow's five values are the values for which people live when they have nothing to live for. Nothing has seized them, nothing has caught them, nothing has driven them spiritually mad and made them worth talking to.”
― Joseph Campbell, quote from Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation


“What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. There is nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way you will find, live, become a realization of your own personal myth.”
― Joseph Campbell, quote from Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation



About the author

Joseph Campbell
Born place: in White Plains, NY, The United States
Born date March 26, 1904
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