Joseph Campbell Quotes

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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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  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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• Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Military

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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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• 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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• 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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  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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• All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is.

  Joseph Campbell

  Evil, Joy, Sorrow

  "Myths to Live By".

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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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• People forget facts, but they remember stories.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Stories, Facts

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• We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Journey, World

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.183, 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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• 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 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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• One of the great disadvantages of a literary or scriptural tradition like the biblical one is that a deity or context of deities becomes crystallized, petrified at a certain time and place. The deity doesn’t continue to grow, expand, or take into account new cultural forces and new realizations in the sciences, and the result is this make-believe conflict we have in our culture between science and religion.

  Joseph Campbell

  Believe, Biblical, Culture

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

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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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• The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.' And so it starts.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.

  Joseph Campbell

  Yoga, Positivity, Free Your Mind

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• Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Outcomes, Heroic

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

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• Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, World, Opinion

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• At the darkest moment comes the light.

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  Light, Bliss, Moments

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.44, Anchor

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• For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces, however, will have been set in motion beyond the reckoning of the senses. Sequences of events from the corners of the world will draw gradually together, and miracles of coincidence bring the inevitable to pass.

  Joseph Campbell

  Heart, Destiny, Agony

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.196, New World Library

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• I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.

  Joseph Campbell

  Taken, Journey, Firsts

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