Joseph Campbell's Quotes
Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph CampbellFind a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph CampbellFollow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
Joseph CampbellComputers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph CampbellI don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph CampbellWhat 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 CampbellI don't have to have faith, I have experience.
Joseph CampbellGod is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph CampbellEvery religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph CampbellWhen 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 CampbellParticipate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Joseph CampbellMyths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph CampbellWhen you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph CampbellYour sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
Joseph CampbellI 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 CampbellThe goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph CampbellThe privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph CampbellLife 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 CampbellOpportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Joseph CampbellYour life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Joseph CampbellA hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph CampbellWe must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell