Joseph Campbell Quotes

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  If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Life, Work

  Tags in Path, Probably
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  The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Educator, Teach
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  We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Planned, Willing
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  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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Asking, Waste

• The image of God is your final obstruction to a religious experience.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Religion
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  Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Universe, Doors, Faith, Inspiration

• The fates lead him who will; him who won’t they drag.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Death

• Myth is what we call other people’s religion.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Religion

• 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

  Topics in Life
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  The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Treasure, Holds
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  Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Inspirational, Spirituality

  Tags in Find, Sacred

• The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites–man and woman, good and evil–are as holy as that of a god.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in God

• It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in God
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  He who thinks he knows, doesn’t know. He who knows that he doesn’t know, knows.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Knows

• You enter the forest
  at the darkest point,
  where there is no path.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Inspirational

•  We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Inspirational

• Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Inspirational

• We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Life
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  Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Stumble, Find

• I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Inspirational

Joseph Campbell (77)

Birth:	26th March, 1904
Death:	30th October, 1987
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Mythologist, Lecturer, Scholar, Writer

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