Joseph Campbell

“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

“When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)”

“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.”

“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.”