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
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
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
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