Joseph Campbell quotes - page 2

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it. (Joseph Campbell)
Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. View quote
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It's a wonderful, wonderful opera, except that it hurts. View quote
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We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes. View quote
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you. View quote
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. View quote
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The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy-not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call "following your bliss." View quote
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life. View quote
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In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship. View quote
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The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves. View quote
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. (Joseph Campbell)
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold. View quote
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If you are falling.... dive. View quote
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All religions are true but none are literal. View quote
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. View quote
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The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. View quote
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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. View quote
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Myth is what we call other people's religion. View quote
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We save the world by being alive ourselves. View quote
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You are the Hero of your own Story. View quote
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Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery. (Joseph Campbell)
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? View quote
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What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe. View quote
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If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor. View quote
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It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60). View quote
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