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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Military

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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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• 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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  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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• What is required is the finding of that Immovable Point within one's self, which is not shaken by any of those tempests which the Buddhists call 'the eight karmic winds': 1-fear of pain, 2-desire for pleasure; 3-fear of loss; 4-desire for gain; 5-fear of blame, 6-desire for praise; 7-fear of disgrace; [and] 8-desire for fame.

  Joseph Campbell

  Karma, Buddhist, Pain

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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 hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Journey, Self

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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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• 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 as facts, then you are in trouble.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, True Friend, Mind Your Own Business

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.67, Anchor

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• If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life
  seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say 'yea' to it all.

  Joseph Campbell

  Pain, Opportunity, Challenges

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• The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what's outside.

  Joseph Campbell

  Realms, Heavenly, Relate

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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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• The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger's lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Dark, Opportunity

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• When you go through life ... it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in your 60s or 70s and look back, your life looks like a well-planned novel with a coherent theme ... Incidents that seemed accidental, pure chance, turn out to be major elements in the structuring of this novel. Schopenhauer says, 'Who wrote this novel? You did.'

  Joseph Campbell

  Looks, Elements, Chance

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• If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ideas, Fixed, Ifs

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• You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that's waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Moving, Order

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• If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Stories

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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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