938 Quotes by Joseph Campbell

Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

The ultimate experience of love is a realization that beneath the illusion of two-ness dwells identity.

The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence.

Passion makes most psychiatrists nervous

Such an image of one's god becomes a final obstruction, one's ultimate barrier. You hold on to your own ideology, your own little manner of thinking, and when a larger experience of God approaches, an experience greater than you are prepared to receive, you take flight from it by clinging to the image in your mind. This is known as preserving your faith.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.

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.

Trebuie să fim dispuși să renunțăm la viața pe care ne-am planificat-o, pentru a o putea trăi pe cea care ne așteaptă.

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.