Joseph Campbell Quotes

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

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

The cave you most fear to enter contains the greatest treasure.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.

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

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

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

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

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.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

The ultimate Campbell quote: Keep it simple.

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

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

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

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.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

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.

If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

The ultimate Campbell quote: Keep it simple.

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

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

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

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

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

Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth—penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us.

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