Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell

"If you want to change the world, change the metaphor."
78 Quotes
"If you want to change the world, change the metaphor."
Joseph Campbell
"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."
Joseph Campbell
"Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience."
Joseph Campbell
"The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves."
Joseph Campbell
"What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects."
Joseph Campbell
"The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves"
Joseph Campbell
"Myth is what we call other people's religion."
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
"All religions are true but none are literal."
Joseph Campbell
"When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else."
Joseph Campbell
"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
Joseph Campbell
"Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold."
Joseph Campbell
"Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is."
Joseph Campbell
"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again."
Joseph Campbell
"If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be."
Joseph Campbell
"The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination."
Joseph Campbell
"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's."
Joseph Campbell
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls."
Joseph Campbell
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