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Joseph Campbell Quotes
American
-
Author
March 26, 1904 - October 31, 1987
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
Inspirational
Life
Waiting
Go
Accept
Let Go
Must
Planned
Us
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph Campbell
Inspirational
Life
Hero
Who
Bigger
Given
Her
His
Oneself
Someone
Something
Than
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
Life
You
Alive
Meaning
Ascribe
Being
Bring
Meaning Of
Meaning Of Life
Whatever
Without
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell
Dreams
Myths
Public
Private
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
Life
Sea
Experience
Never
Anyone
Anyone Else
Been
Could
Each
Else
Experienced
His
Land
Must
Out
Own
Seek
Something
Unique
Has-Been
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Joseph Campbell
Life
Find
Most
Come
Challenging
Deeper
Opportunities
Ourselves
Powers
Seems
Within
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph Campbell
Life
Nature
Universe
Your
Beat
Goal
Heartbeat
Make
Match
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
Life
Experience
People
Believe
Alive
Being
Looking
Meaning
Meaning Of
Meaning Of Life
Much
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
Life
Best
Humanity
Way
Another
Contemporary
Contemporary Life
Dedicate
Find
Flowering
Fosters
Our
Ourselves
One-Way
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
Joseph Campbell
Inspirational
Universe
Doors
Will
Bliss
Follow
Only
Open
Open Doors
Walls
Were
Where
Your
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
Love
People
Marriage
Disappointment
Affair
Affairs
Because
Divorced
End
Get
Get Married
Identity
Love Affair
Married
Recognition
Soon
Spiritual
Think
Very
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.
Joseph Campbell
You
Religion
Facts
Way
Another
Every
Gets
Interpreting
Metaphors
Own
Stuck
Them
Then
Trouble
True
Understood
One-Way
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph Campbell
God
Simple
Religion
Intellectual
Levels
Metaphor
Thought
Transcends
Which
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
Joseph Campbell
You
Your
Adventure
Question
Big
Able
Big Question
Going
Hearty
Say
Whether
Yes
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph Campbell
You
Relationship
Marriage
Unity
Each
Make
Other
Sacrifice
Sacrificing
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
Joseph Campbell
Faith
Experience
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell
Life
You
Who
Being
Privilege
Lifetime
Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell
Love
Friendship
Music
Love Is
Set
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
Joseph Campbell
Wisdom
You
Yourself
Space
Again
Find
Sacred
Where
Your
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell
Computers
Like
Mercy
Old
Rules
Gods
Lots
Old Testament
Testament
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell
Positive
Pain
Joy
Will
Burn
Find
Inside
Out
Place
Where
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Joseph Campbell
Life
You
Yourself
Fruit
Blame
Doing
Own
Your
No-One
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
Money
Think
Live
Himself
Job
Order
Person
Say
Slave
Takes
Turned
I Think
Who
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
Sad
World
Joy
Live
Cannot
Choose
Cure
Joyfully
Participate
Sorrows
We Cannot
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
You
Moving On
Your
Abyss
Down
Going
Lies
Recover
Stumble
Treasure
Treasures
Where
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Joseph Campbell
Thinking
Transformation
Own
Quit
About
Consciousness
Heroic
Our
Ourselves
Primarily
Self-Preservation
Truly
Undergo
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
You
Humanity
Your
Human
Able
Attainment
Deny
Flatten
Going
Make
Out
Purposes
System
Use
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
Value
Doing
Alive
Forget
About
Achieve
Associated
Being
Engaged
Inner
Outer
Purposes
Rapture
Things
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