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Joseph Campbell [1904-1987] American

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Joseph John Campbell was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. His philosophy is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss."

Life, Experience, Inspirational, Marriage, Religion, Best, Computers, Dreams, Faith, Friendship, God, Love, Money, Moving On, Music, Nature, Positive, Relationship, Sad, Space, Wisdom, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.	Positive	1
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.	Life	101
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.	Inspirational, Life	103
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.	Inspirational, Life	104
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.	Inspirational	105
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.	Experience, Life	106
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.	Life	107
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.	Space, Wisdom	108
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.	Computers	109
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.		110
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.	Life, Moving On	111
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.	God, Religion	112
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.	Marriage, Relationship	113
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.		114
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.	Nature	115
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.	Money, Work	116
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.	Dreams	117
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.	Best	118
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.	Religion	119
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.	Experience, Faith	120
Love is a friendship set to music.	Friendship, Love, Music	121
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.		122
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?		123
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.		124
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.	Marriage	125
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.	Experience	126
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.	Sad	201
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.		202

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