“Deep down inside, we don't seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I don't believe people are searching for the meaning of life. I believe they are searching for that feeling of being alive. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“[T]here is nothing to say about life. It has no meaning. You make meaning. If you want a meaning in your life,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Life is, in its very essence and character, a terrible mystery—this whole business of living by killing and eating. But it is… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The idea of the supernatural as being something over and above the natural is a killing idea. In the Middle Ages this… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Just think, Vishnu sleeps in the cosmic ocean, and the lotus of the universe grows from his navel. On the lotus sits… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“[The Christian story] amounts to a refusal to affirm life. In the biblical tradition we have inherited, life is corrupt, and every… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We must let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
![“[T]here is nothing to say about life. It has no meaning. You make meaning. If you want a meaning in your life, find a meaning and bring it into your life, but life won't give you a meaning. Meaning is a concept. It is a notion of an end toward which you are going. The point of Buddhism is This Is…” quote by Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4a1/joseph-campbell-300_buddhism_t-here-is-nothing-to-say-about-life-it-h_119345.jpg)
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