Joseph Campbell Quotes

Joseph Campbell was a American Philosopher and mythologist. His work covered a vast area of human experience, and can often be summarized by the phrase "Follow your bliss" These quotes will inspire you to learn and dig deeper into the mind and who you are.

"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."
Joseph Campbell

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

"God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."
Joseph Campbell

"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness."
Joseph Campbell

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
Joseph Campbell

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

"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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