All Joseph Campbell Quotes
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell in
Dreams
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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
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Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Joseph Campbell
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Joseph Campbell
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Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
Joseph Campbell
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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
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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
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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
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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph Campbell
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God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph Campbell
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Joseph Campbell
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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
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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell
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Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell
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