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Joseph Campbell Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.”
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Tagged: Finding Your Path, Inspirational, Finding Joy
“We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Tagged: Letting Go
“Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and it’s spectacular.”
— Joseph Campbell, Ep. 4: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth -- 'Sacrifice and Bliss' | BillMoyers.com
Tagged: Life, Pain, Sufferings, Challenges, surviving
“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, Joseph Campbell: “What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea”
Tagged: Achievements, goal, Life, Desire, Dream
“Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.”
— Joseph Campbell, Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion
Tagged: risking, Braveness, Courage, Risk, Failure, Life, Success, Dreams, Goals, Inspirational, Motivational
“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, The Power of Myth
Tagged: Life, Being Alive
“I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.”
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Tagged: Doors, Passion, purpose, Open, bliss, follow, Life, Living, be
“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, Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation
Tagged: Meaning, Life, Reality, Spiritual
“All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.”
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Tagged: Dreams, Man's Existence
“If you’re going to have a story, have a big story.”
— Joseph Campbell, The Storyteller's Secret:
Tagged: Inspirational, Creating Your Own Life, Life
“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, The Power of Myth
Tagged: Paths, purpose, Inspirational
“The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.”
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Tagged: The Power Of Myth, Joseph Campbell
“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 with a Thousand Faces (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
“Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive. [...] But love bears all things. [...] Love itself is pain, you might say - the pain of being truly alive.”
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Tagged: The Power Of Myth, 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 with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Tagged: The Power Of Myth, Joseph Campbell
“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, The Power of Myth
Tagged: The Power Of Myth, Joseph Campbell
“Whether we listen with aloof amusement to the dreamlike mumbo jumbo of some red-eyed witch doctor of the Congo, or read with cultivated rapture thin translations from the sonnets of the mystic Lao-tse; now and again crack the hard nutshell of an argument of Aquinas, or catch suddenly the shining meaning of a bizarre Eskimo fairy tale: it will always be the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find, together with a challengingly persistent suggestion of more remaining to be experienced than will ever be known or told.”
— Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
Tagged: first lines of books, Mythology, Longest Sentence Ever
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