| BILL MOYERS: Do you ever have the sense of... being helped by hidden hands? JOSEPH CAMPBELL: All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time - namely, that 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. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be. |  |
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Joseph Campbell's Concept of "Follow your Bliss"
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Good quote, and I agree. I take Dr. Campbell's writings with a grain of salt, though. A few years ago I read everything I could get my hands on by Campbell and simply drank in the Bill Moyers interview. The more I listened, however, the more I detected an anti-Christian bias (i.e., he liked everyone's myths but Christians'). At one point he also seemed to justify adultery along the bliss lines.
As a Christian, I suppose I would append the bliss idea to read: "Follow Christ; in that journey you will find your true bliss.
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