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Joseph Campbell
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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,
American
Author
#Life
#People
#Being
#Experience
#Meaning
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,
American
Author
#Money
#Job
#Order
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell,
American
Author
#Public
#Dreams
#Myths
Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell,
American
Author
#Love
#Music
#Friendship
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,
American
Author
#Life
#Being
#Meaning
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,
American
Author
#Humanity
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
Joseph Campbell,
American
Author
#Experience
#Faith
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
Joseph Campbell,
American
Author
#Will
#Universe
#Open
God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph Campbell,
American
Author
#God
#Thought
#Metaphor
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell,
American
Author
#Will
#Pain
#Joy
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,
American
Author
#Trouble
#Religion
#Facts
#Metaphors
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell,
American
Author
#Old
#Computers
#Rules
#Gods
#Mercy
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph Campbell,
American
Author
#Life
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Joseph Campbell,
American
Author
#Life
#Lies
#Treasure
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Joseph Campbell,
American
Author
#Thinking
#Self
#Consciousness
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Joseph Campbell,
American
Author
#Life
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,
American
Author
#World
#Cure
#Joy
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
Joseph Campbell,
American
Author
#Question
#Adventure
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph Campbell,
American
Author
#Life
#Universe
#Nature
#Goal
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell,
American
Author
#Being
#Privilege
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell,
American
Author
#Life
#Waiting
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,
American
Author
#Forget
#Being
#Value
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,
American
Author
#Life
#Experience
#Land
#Sea
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
Joseph Campbell,
American
Author
#Space
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph Campbell,
American
Author
#Sacrifice
#Unity
#Marriage
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Joseph Campbell,
American
Author
#Life
#Blame
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,
American
Author
#Life
#Humanity
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,
American
Author
#Love
#People
#End
#Spiritual
#Marriage
#Identity
#Disappointment