Pathways to Bliss eBook

In Pathways to Bliss, Campbell examines this personal, psychological side of myth. Like his classic best-selling books Myths to Live By and The Power of Myth, Pathways to Bliss draws from Campbell’s popular lectures and dialogues, which highlight his remarkable storytelling and ability to apply the larger themes of world mythology to personal growth and the quest for transformation. Here he anchors mythology’s symbolic wisdom to the individual, applying the most poetic mythical metaphors to the challenges of our daily lives.

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"Enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path."

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"A mythologically grounded culture presents you with symbols that immediately evoke your participation; they are all vital, living connections, and so they link you both to the underlying mystery and to the culture itself. Yet when the culture uses symbols that are no longer alive, that are no longer effective, it cuts you off."

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"All of the great cathedrals of Europe were built during this lunatic century between 1150 and 1250. People didn’t have enough money then to buy two cows, let alone two cars. What were they living for? And you mustn’t think of slave drivers; that isn’t what built the cathedrals. It was a community seizure, a mythic zeal."