Quotes About Inspiration

But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.

I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

When a spider makes a beautiful web, the beauty comes out of the spider's nature. It's instinctive beauty. How much of the beauty of our own lives is about the beauty of being alive?

We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recongnize your own depth.

Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.

Lo que el creativo saca a la luz es algo que estaba esperando ser extraído en todos.

People often think of the Goddess as a fertility deity only. Not at all—she's the muse. She's the inspirer of poetry. She's the inspirer of the spirit. So, she has three functions: one, to give us life; two, to be the one who receives us in death; and three, to inspire our spiritual, poetic realization.

People can go very badly awry in this individual quest. But when the quest is fortunate, there comes a lifetime of creative innovative action.

The relationship of these two gods is important: Hermes guides souls to the knowledge of eternal life by way of intellectual initiation, while Dionysus represents sudden inspiration, the energy of life pouring through time and throwing off old forms to make new life.

Follow your bliss, and doors will open for you that you never knew existed. Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls

Willed introversion, in fact, is one of the classic implements of creative genius and can be employed as a deliberate device.

CAMPBELL: I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

The myth is not my own; I have it from my mother. Euripides

Art brings out the grand lines of nature. Antione Bourdelle

You changed the definition of a myth from the search for meaning to the experience of meaning. CAMPBELL: Experience of life.

Mythology is the song. It is the song of the imagination, inspired by the energies of the body.

CAMPBELL: Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. Most

CAMPBELL: There has to be a training to help you open your ears so that you can begin to hear metaphorically instead of concretely. Freud and Jung both felt that myth is grounded in the unconscious. Anyone writing a creative work knows that you open, you yield yourself, and the book talks to you and builds itself. To a certain extent, you become the carrier of something that is given to you from what have been called the Muses—or, in biblical language, "God." This

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

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. If you are following your bliss you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid; the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

a curious characteristic of our unformed species that we live and model our lives through acts of make-believe.

students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

Joseph Campbell