Joseph Campbell Quotes

Joseph Campbell (69)

Birth:	26th March, 1904
Death:	30th October, 1987
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Mythologist, Lecturer, Scholar, Writer

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• Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

  Joseph Campbell

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  We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, So as to have the life that is waiting for us.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Life, Wisdom

  Tags in Waiting, Planned, Must, Let

• We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have thelife that is waiting for us.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Faith

• 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

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  Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

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  Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

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• If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.

  Joseph Campbell

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• 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

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  Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

  Joseph Campbell

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  Tags in Universe, Doors
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  The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

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  The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

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  A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.

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  Tags in Testament, Mercy
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  Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Joy

  Tags in Sorrows, Participate
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  The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

  Joseph Campbell

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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.

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  Topics in Goal, Life, Nature

  Tags in Universe, Match, Heartbeat

• When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

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  Tags in Marriage

• Marriage is not a simple love affair, it’s an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

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• Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

  Joseph Campbell

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  Tags in Myths, Dreams, Private, Public

• When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Problems

• The world is full of people that have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.

  Joseph Campbell

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  Tags in World