Joseph Campbell Quotes

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

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.

Follow Your Bliss.

Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.

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

If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

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.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

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.

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

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 follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.

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