Joseph Campbell Quotes (90 Quotes)

Mythology is the womb of man's initiation to life and death.

The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive.

Heroism is a matter of integrity--becoming more and more at each step ourselves.

To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.

As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face.

The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer... It's the world of people living inauthentic lives doing what they are supposed to do.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss.

Any life career that you choose in following your bliss should be chosen with that sense that nobody can frighten me off from this thing. And no matter what happens, this is the validation of my life and action.

God is Within You You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.

At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

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

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

It's a little too early to tell what happened, ... This had the appearance of a well-planned and well-negotiated deal that was designed to be released on Monday.

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

We do not think the Boeing IAM workers will strike when their contract expires on Sept. 2.

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

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated Decembe

The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure fearlessness and achievement.

If you realize what the real problem islosing yourselfyou realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

If you assume these 17,000 guys go away and never come back, it'd make a difference. But if they come back in two weeks rather than one week, I don't see it making a difference. They don't even have a strike fund. I'm a long way from getting worried.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

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.

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

Everybody's going to be looking at these little bits and pieces and deciding what they like and don't like. There's enough attractive pieces in that business that quite a few people will express an interest.

If you can see your path laid outin front of you step by step, you knowit's not your path. Your own path youmake with every step you take. That'swhy it's your path.

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

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.

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 resonance's within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit ... each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

When Boeing goes down, it goes down for several years,

Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.