Joseph Campbell Quotes

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• Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
• We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
• The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
• Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
• I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
• Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
• God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
• When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
• I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into…
• 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…
• Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
• When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But…
• Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
• 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…
• When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
• It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
• Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
• A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
• Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
• 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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