joseph campbell Quotes 1
| Name | Birthday | Death Date | Nationality | father | Mother | Profession | Famous For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Campbell | 26 March 1904 | 30 October 1987 | American | Charles Campbell | Josephine Campbell | Scholar, Author, Professor | A professor and author who focused on comparative folklore with books like, 'The Power of Myth' and 'The Hero With a Thousand Faces'. |
A list of popular joseph campbell quotes are given below.
"Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time." - Joseph Campbell
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness." - Joseph Campbell
"[Marriage] is the reunion of the separated duad. Originally you were one. You are now two in the world, but the recognition of the spiritual identity is what marriage is." - Joseph Campbell
"We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth." - Joseph Campbell
"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." - Joseph Campbell
"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature." - 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
"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure." - Joseph Campbell
"When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship." - Joseph Campbell
"God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that." - Joseph Campbell
"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
"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." - Joseph Campbell
"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." - Joseph Campbell
"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