New Delhi, June 5 -- Joseph Campbell's quote, "If you do follow your bliss. the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living," is one of the most famous modern reflections on purpose.

Campbell's idea of "follow your bliss" is often misunderstood as simply chasing pleasure, but the Joseph Campbell Foundation explains it as something deeper: following the work, path or calling that brings a person into alignment with their deepest life energy. For modern readers, the quote is a powerful lesson on vocation, courage, self-trust and the life that begins when one stops living only by fear or social approval.

The line is widely associated with Campbell's conversations with Bill Moyers in The Power of Myth and is commonly quoted w...