Joseph Campbell Quotes

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Journey

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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  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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Self Improvement, Meaning Of Life

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• Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

  Joseph Campbell

  Path, Mystery, Problem

  Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell : Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, Harper San Francisco

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  Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called "the love of your fate." Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, "This is what I need." It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment-not discouragement-you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.

  Joseph Campbell

  Success, Jobs, Character

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• The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.

  Joseph Campbell

  Knowing Who You Are, Intention, Advise

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Inspiring, Veterans Day

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor

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• You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives you life, breadth, and depth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Giving, Dimensions

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.70, Anchor

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• The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Appreciation

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• It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Speech, Function

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• 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Arriving

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• Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Wings, Entanglement

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• All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

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• Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'

  Joseph Campbell

  Needs, Hell, Happens

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• The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

  Joseph Campbell

  Caves, Source, Turns

  "A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living". Book edited by Diane K. Osbon, 1991.

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• You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.

  Joseph Campbell

  Morning, Creative, Use

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.115, Anchor

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• What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Heart, Fiction, Made

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.73, New World Library

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• Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

  Joseph Campbell

  Law, Survival, Firsts

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.37, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Way, Path

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• What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Courage, Pain

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Time, Pain

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• 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Fall, Tunnels

  Sukhavati Magazine, 2002, reissued 2007.

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• If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Path

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• People forget facts, but they remember stories.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Stories, Facts

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