This book exists because Bill Moyers was willing to address the fundamental and difficult subject of myth — and because Joseph Campbell was willing to answer Moyers’ penetrating questions with self-revealing honesty, based on a lifetime of living with myth.

“MOYERS: Do you ever have this sense when you are following your bliss, as I have at moments, of being helped by hidden hands?

 

CAMPBELL: All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as the 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 the field of your bliss, and they open the 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.”