"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." ~Joseph Campbell
"As a white candle in a holy place, so is the beauty of an aged face." ~Joseph Campbell
“Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.”
~ 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
"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain." ~Joseph Campbell
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls." ~Joseph Campbell
"If you can see your path laid out in front of you, step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path." ~Joseph Campbell
"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living." ~Joseph Campbell
"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure." ~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
“Life seems as though it were planned; and there is something IN us that’s causing what you hear of as being accident prone: it’s something in ourselves. There is a mystery here. Schonpenhauer finally asks the question: Can anything happen to you which you’re not ready? I look back now on certain things that at the time seemed to me to be real disasters, but the results turned out to be the structuring of a really great aspect of my life and career.” ~Joseph Campbell
"Love is a friendship set to music." ~Joseph Campbell
"One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light." ~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
“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.” ~Joseph Campbell
"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." ~Joseph Campbell
"The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement." ~Joseph Campbell on Yield
"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe to match your nature with Nature." ~Joseph Campbell
“The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.' And so it starts.” ~Joseph Campbell, Reflections on the Art of Living
"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." ~Joseph Campbell
"There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth." ~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
"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain." ~Joseph Campbell
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls." ~Joseph Campbell
"If you can see your path laid out in front of you, step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path." ~Joseph Campbell
"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living." ~Joseph Campbell
"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure." ~Joseph Campbell
“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.” ~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
“Life seems as though it were planned; and there is something IN us that’s causing what you hear of as being accident prone: it’s something in ourselves. There is a mystery here. Schonpenhauer finally asks the question: Can anything happen to you which you’re not ready? I look back now on certain things that at the time seemed to me to be real disasters, but the results turned out to be the structuring of a really great aspect of my life and career.” ~Joseph Campbell
"Love is a friendship set to music." ~Joseph Campbell
"One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light." ~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
“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.” ~Joseph Campbell
"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." ~Joseph Campbell
"The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement." ~Joseph Campbell on Yield
"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe to match your nature with Nature." ~Joseph Campbell
“The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.' And so it starts.” ~Joseph Campbell, Reflections on the Art of Living
"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." ~Joseph Campbell
"There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth." ~Joseph Campbell
“Those who know, not only that the Everlasting lives in them, but that what they, and all things, really are is the Everlasting, dwell in the groves of the wish-fulfilling trees, drink the brew of immortality, and listen everywhere to the unheard music of eternal concord. These are the immortals.” ~Joseph Campbell, “The Hero With a Thousand Faces”
"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
"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
"We cannot cure the world of sorrow, but we can choose to live in joy." ~Joseph Campbell
“We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ~Joseph Campbell
"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is awaiting us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one is to come." ~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
"When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost every mythology sees the origins of life coming out of water. And, curiously, that's true. It's amusing that the origin of life out of water is in myths and then again, finally, in science, we find the same thing. It's exactly so." ~Joseph Campbell
"When your heart speaks, take good notes." ~Joseph Campbell
"We're in a free-fall 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." ~Joseph Campbell from Dreamwork Toko-pa
“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.” ~Joseph Campbell
“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.” ~Joseph Campbell
"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is awaiting us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one is to come." ~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
"When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost every mythology sees the origins of life coming out of water. And, curiously, that's true. It's amusing that the origin of life out of water is in myths and then again, finally, in science, we find the same thing. It's exactly so." ~Joseph Campbell
"When your heart speaks, take good notes." ~Joseph Campbell
"We're in a free-fall 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." ~Joseph Campbell from Dreamwork Toko-pa
“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.” ~Joseph Campbell
“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.” ~Joseph Campbell
BIO
Joseph Campbell (born, 26 March 1904; died, 30 Oct 1987): A writer and thinker who has an immense influence on how I think and perceive the world. My life’s journey is deeply inspired by his exposition on the “hero’s journey.”
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“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.”
“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”
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~ All quotations by Joseph Campbell
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