Joseph Campbell Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Change

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Inspiring, Veterans Day

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor

• People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Reality

  TV Mini-Series "The Power of Myth" ("Episode 2", Chapter 4), 1988.

• When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Darkness, Lost

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Journey

• We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Letting Go

• I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Children, Women

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

• The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.' And so it starts.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

• What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act - and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Respect, Loss

• Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you have to do, you do with play. I think a good way to conceive of sacred space is as a playground. If what you're doing seems like play, you are in it. But you can't play with my toys, you have to have your own. Your life should have yielded some. Older people play with life experiences and realizations or with thoughts they like to entertain. In my case, I have books I like to read that don't lead anywhere.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Time, Fun

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

• If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

• Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Death, Order

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.206, Anchor

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.8, Joseph Campbell Foundation

• 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Humanity, Way

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.182, Anchor

• Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

• If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Finding Yourself, Mind

• Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Space

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Arriving

• Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Wall, Ladders

• No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.331, New World Library

• The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, God

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