All The Heavens, All The Hells, Are Inside You

Follow Your Bliss

Follow Your Bliss

Joyful Participation In The Sorrows Of The World

Follow Your Bliss

Joyful Participation In The Sorrows Of The World

Follow Your Bliss

Follow Your Bliss

All The Gods Are Within Us

A belief in a cruel god makes a cruel man.
 –– Thomas Paine

Dead On Arrival

Human adulthood is not achieved until the twenties: 

[George Bernard] Shaw put it in the seventies: 

not a few look ahead to Purgatory.

 — Joseph Campbell

Moving

Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. 

Tension, a lack of honesty, and a sense of unreality come from following the wrong force in your life. 

As an adult, you must rediscover the moving power of your life!
 — Joseph Campbell 'Reflections on the Art of Living'

Symbolisations Of Transcendence

The first step to participation in the destiny of humanity today, which is neither of this folk nor of that, but of the whole population of the globe, is to recognise every such local image of a god as but one of many thousands, millions, even perhaps billions, of locally useful symbolisations of that same mystery beyond sight or thought which our teachers have taught us to seek in their god alone.

 — Joseph Campbell 'The Inner Reaches Of Outer Space'

Gods As Facts Instead Of Symbols

For any god who is not transparent to transcendence is an idol,
and its worship is idolatry.
 — Joseph Campbell 'The Inner Reaches Of Outer Space'

Place To Be

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
 — Joseph Campbell

Metaphors

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.
— Joseph Campbell

God is a metaphor
for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought.
— Joseph Campbell

Being Is Difference

Space is boundlessness by re-entrant form not by great extension. That which is is a shell floating in the infinitude of that which is not.
Arthur Eddington 'The Nature of The Physical World'

The first phase of the cosmogonic cycle describes the breaking of formlessness into form …
— Joseph Campbell 'The Hero With A Thousand Faces'

The Breaking Of The One Into The Manifold
— Joseph Campbell 'The Hero With A Thousand Faces'

Myth

… whenever a myth has been taken literally its sense has been perverted; but also, reciprocally, … whenever it has been dismissed as a mere priestly fraud or sign of inferior intelligence, truth has slipped out the other door.
— Joseph Campbell