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Joseph Campbell Quotes
Joseph Campbell Quotes
Joseph Campbell
American
Author
Born:
Mar 26
,
1904
Died:
Oct 31
,
1987
Experience
Life
Own
Think
You
Your
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Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell
Positive
Joy
Will
Pain
Out
Find
Inside
Where
Burn
Place
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
Joseph Campbell
Walls
Will
Doors
Universe
Follow
Only
Open
Open Doors
Bliss
Were
Where
Your
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph Campbell
Inspirational
Life
Hero
Someone
Oneself
Something
Given
His
Than
Bigger
Who
Her
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Joseph Campbell
Life
You
Fruit
Blame
Yourself
Own
No-One
Doing
Your
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell
You
Lifetime
Privilege
Being
Who
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell
Old
Mercy
Rules
Computers
Like
Testament
Lots
Gods
Old Testament
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
Joseph Campbell
You
Yourself
Space
Find
Sacred
Where
Again
Your
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 meaning.
Joseph Campbell
Life
You
Whatever
Meaning Of Life
Alive
Without
Being
Ascribe
Meaning
Meaning Of
Bring
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Joseph Campbell
Life
Moving On
You
Stumble
Abyss
Down
Lies
Recover
Going
Where
Your
Treasure
Treasures
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 marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Joseph Campbell
Love
Spiritual
Disappointment
Marriage
People
Think
Recognition
Married
Divorced
Soon
Identity
Because
Affair
Affairs
End
Very
Get
Get Married
Love Affair
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell
Life
Experience
People
Looking
Meaning Of Life
Believe
Alive
Being
Meaning
Meaning Of
Much
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
Religion
You
Trouble
Own
Every
Way
One-Way
Stuck
Facts
True
Another
Understood
Metaphors
Gets
Them
Then
Interpreting
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Joseph Campbell
Own
Transformation
Thinking
Heroic
Our
Ourselves
About
Primarily
Undergo
Self-Preservation
Truly
Quit
Consciousness
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
Joseph Campbell
Achieve
Value
Alive
Rapture
Outer
About
Purposes
Doing
Forget
Being
Engaged
Things
Inner
Associated
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Joseph Campbell
Sad
Joy
World
Live
We Cannot
Participate
Joyfully
Sorrows
Cure
Cannot
Choose
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph Campbell
Life
Nature
Universe
Beat
Make
Match
Goal
Heartbeat
Your
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
Joseph Campbell
Life
Best
Humanity
Our
Way
Ourselves
Find
One-Way
Contemporary
Contemporary Life
Another
Dedicate
Fosters
Flowering
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph Campbell
God
Religion
Simple
Thought
Metaphor
Intellectual
Transcends
Which
Levels
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
Joseph Campbell
Work
Money
Job
Live
Think
Say
Takes
Himself
Person
Order
Turned
Who
Slave
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
Joseph Campbell
Faith
Experience
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.
Joseph Campbell
Life
Experience
Own
Else
Out
Has-Been
Must
Seek
Something
Could
Never
Been
His
Experienced
Anyone
Anyone Else
Land
Sea
Unique
Each
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph Campbell
Relationship
You
Marriage
Sacrifice
Unity
Other
Sacrificing
Make
Each
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
Joseph Campbell
You
Humanity
System
Out
Able
Purposes
Attainment
Make
Deny
Going
Human
Flatten
Use
Your
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