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 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
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. – Joseph Campbell
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. – Joseph Campbell
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. – Joseph Campbell
Love is a friendship set to music. – Joseph Campbell
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
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. – Joseph Campbell
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
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. – Joseph Campbell
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. – Joseph Campbell
Find a place where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. – Joseph Campbell
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. – Joseph Campbell
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. – Joseph Campbell
