"Follow your bliss."

Joseph Campbell

“Not the animal world, nor the plant world, nor the miracle of the spheres, but man himself is now the crucial mystery”
     Joseph Campbell

"[The mystical function in humans is designed]…to awaken and maintain in the individual a sense of awe and gratitude in relation to the mystery dimension of the universe, not so that he lives in fear of it, but so that he recognizes that he participates in it, since the mystery of being is the mystery of his own deep being as well.”
     Joseph Campbell

“In the orient the ultimate divine mystery is sought beyond all human categories of thought and feeling, beyond names and forms…[and] is to be realised as the ground of one’s own very being. …That is the realisation formulated in those famous words of the gentle Brahmin Aruni to his son, recorded in the Chhandogya Upanishad of about the eighth century B.C.: ‘You, my dear Shivetaketu, you are It’- tat tvam asi. …Only when that mortal ‘you’ will have erased everything about itself that it cherishes and is holding to, will ‘you’ have come to the brink of an experience of identity with that Being which is no being yet is the Being beyond the nonbeing of all things.”
     Joseph Campbell