Quotes by Joseph Campbell

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Joseph John Campbell is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss."
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Joseph Campbell

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

Joseph Campbell

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

Joseph Campbell

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

Joseph Campbell

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

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

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Joseph Campbell

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Joseph Campbell

Love is a friendship set to music.

Joseph Campbell

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Joseph Campbell
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

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

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Joseph Campbell
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Joseph Campbell

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Joseph Campbell

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Joseph Campbell

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

The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Thos...

Joseph Campbell

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

Joseph Campbell

Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize the positive values in what appear to be the negative moments and aspects of your life. The big question is whether you are g...

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Author Bio

  • NameJoseph Campbell
  • DescriptionAmerican mythologist, writer and lecturer
  • AliasesJoseph John Campbell
  • BornMarch 26, 1904
  • DiedOctober 31, 1987
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAnthropologist; Mythologist; Writer; Philosopher; Teacher