The Hero’s Journey

: “Follow your bliss.”

When you have the unmistakable experience of the Aha! then you’ll know you’re riding on the mystery

Joseph Campbell’s patented response to the disenchantment of modern life was: find your life’s true passion and follow it, follow the path that is no path: “Follow your bliss.”

Furthermore, he would add gnomishly, “Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.”

As he did with one of his favorite tales, the Parsifal legend, when he threw down the gauntlet at the end of his Arthurian romance seminars: So is it going to be the Grail Quest or is it going to be the Wasteland? he would ask. Are you going to go on the creative soul’s quest or are you going to pursue the life that only gives you security? Are you going to follow the star of the zeal of your own enthusiasm? Are you going to live the myth or is the myth going to live you?