Joseph Campbell Quotes and its meanings

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.

Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

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.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Love is a friendship set to music.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

The cave you most fear to enter contains the greatest treasure.

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.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

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.

Love is a friendship set to music.

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.

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.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

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.

The cave you most fear to enter contains the greatest treasure.

Love is a friendship set to music.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

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.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

When you follow your bliss doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldnt be a door for anyone else.

When you follow your bliss doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldnt be a door for anyone else.

The cave you most fear to enter contains the greatest treasure.

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.