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Joseph Campbell quotes

American Author March 26, 1904 – October 31, 1987

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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
I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when..."
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as..."
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends. Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the..."
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "You become mature when you become the authority of your own life."
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life. Joseph Campbell
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience. Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something..."
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion."
All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion. Joseph Campbell
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer. 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
I had to climb a mountain. There were all kinds of obstacles in the way. I had now to jump over a ditch, now to get over a hedge, and finally to stand still because I had lost my breath. This was the dream of a stutterer. Joseph Campbell
Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted. Joseph Campbell
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action. For its symbols (whether in the tangible form of images or in the abstract form of ideas) touch and release the deepest centers of motivation, moving literate and illiterate alike, moving mobs, moving civilizations. Joseph Campbell

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