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.
Joseph Campbell

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

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

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
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

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

Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell

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

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Joseph Campbell

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
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

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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