Joseph Campbell quotes

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)
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again. View quote
Joseph Campbell
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. View quote
Joseph Campbell
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. View quote
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. View quote
Joseph Campbell
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. View quote
Joseph Campbell
It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. (Joseph Campbell)
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. View quote
Joseph Campbell
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. View quote
Joseph Campbell
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. View quote
Joseph Campbell
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. View quote
Joseph Campbell
I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on. View quote
Joseph Campbell
In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams. View quote
Joseph Campbell
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. (Joseph Campbell)
I don't need faith. I have experience. View quote
Joseph Campbell
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. View quote
Joseph Campbell
There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you're on the wrong wall. View quote
Joseph Campbell