Joseph Campbell Quotes
Follow your bliss.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
This thing up here, this consciousness, thinks it's running the shop. It's a secondary organ.
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.
The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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.
Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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.
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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.
Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence — for he has the perfected eye to see. There is no separateness.
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.
Every 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.
Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.
