Joseph Campbell's quote

(March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion.

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We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
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.
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 without own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. The Power of Myth
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends. Creative Mythology: The Masks of God 4
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.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
If you are falling....dive.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
All religions are true but none are literal.
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The Hero With a Thousand Faces
The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.
Myth is what we call other people's religion.
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. Sukhavati
Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted. The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
I don't have to have faith, I have experience. The Power of Myth
God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!'
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.
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time. The Power of Myth
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe to match your nature with Nature.
Regrets are illuminations come too late. The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies. Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.