Joseph Campbell Quotes


Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. Joseph Campbell Inspirational 333
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. Joseph Campbell Famous 225
Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in tune with the universe. He said, Joseph Campbell Universe 192
Love is a friendship set to music. Joseph Campbell Friend 180
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Joseph Campbell Life 175
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you. Joseph Campbell Inner 160
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell Experience 113
You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you. Joseph Campbell Inspirational life 104
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. Joseph Campbell Experience 93
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Joseph Campbell Work 92
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. Joseph Campbell Dream 90
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. Joseph Campbell Life 89
Life will always be sorrowful. We cant change it but we can change our attitude toward it. Joseph Campbell Mythology 87
If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldnt have opened for anyone else. Joseph Campbell Motivational 87
When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individuals own spiritual experience is lost. 111 Joseph Campbell Spirituality 85
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. Joseph Campbell Life 81
Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a Joseph Campbell Myths 79
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth. Joseph Campbell Artist 79
I don't have to have faith, I have experience. Joseph Campbell Faith 77
A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy. Joseph Campbell Computer 74
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends. Joseph Campbell Life 73
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. Joseph Campbell Alive 73
As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face. Joseph Campbell Age 73
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. Joseph Campbell Life 72
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. Joseph Campbell Another 72
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. Joseph Campbell Able 70
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure. Joseph Campbell Failure 69
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. Joseph Campbell Joy 66
With the moon walk the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. 105 Joseph Campbell Myth 65
The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate without overdoing it the notion of education as in the Latin educereto lead to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate himher from the outside. 89 Joseph Campbell Children 63
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. Joseph Campbell Religion 62
Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy. Joseph Campbell computers 62
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. Joseph Campbell Nature 61
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again. Joseph Campbell Life lesson 60
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. Joseph Campbell Marriage 58
An old Apache storyteller reminds us: Joseph Campbell Nature 57
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell Life 57
Follow your bliss. Joseph Campbell Dreams 56
It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. 60. Joseph Campbell Arrogance 55
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves Joseph Campbell Inspiring 52
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. Joseph Campbell Artist 50
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout to be in your service is the trick. Joseph Campbell Ego 48
The ultimate unqualified mystery is beyond Human experience Joseph Campbell Spirituality 47
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer. Joseph Campbell Meaning of life 47
To separate oneself or one Joseph Campbell Duality 47
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. Joseph Campbell Bliss 45
The latest incarnation of Oedipus the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue waiting for the traffic light to change. Joseph Campbell Myth 44
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. Joseph Campbell Marriage 43
Marriage is the reunion of the separated duad. Originally you were one. You are now two in the world but the recognition of the spiritual identity is what marriage is. Joseph Campbell Marriage 42
What were learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. Were learning technologies were getting information. Theres a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects. Joseph Campbell Mythology 42

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