He said myths and mythology wasnt to give meaning to life but to give us an experience of life, an experience of vitality in being alive. – Joseph Campbell
Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a – Joseph Campbell
Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in tune with the universe. He said, – Joseph Campbell
If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldnt have opened for anyone else. – Joseph Campbell
Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter… This is it… If you dont get it here, you wont get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; heres the place to have the experience. – Joseph Campbell
Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and thats why everything is so screwy. – Joseph Campbell
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth. – Joseph Campbell
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. – Joseph Campbell
Were so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what its all about. – Joseph Campbell
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, youre sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. – Joseph Campbell
When people get married because they think its a long-time love affair, theyll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. – Joseph Campbell
Find a place inside where theres joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. – Joseph Campbell
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. Its as simple as that. – Joseph Campbell
I dont believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. – Joseph Campbell
I dont have to have faith, I have experience. – Joseph Campbell
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
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
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
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. – Joseph Campbell
