God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.


Joseph Campbell

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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a rela...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
People say that what their seeking is a meaning for life.... I think that what we are seeking is an ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Todos los dioses, todos los cielos, todos los infiernos, están en ti.
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I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose...
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A hero ventures forth from the world
of common day into a region of
supernatural wonder. F...
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The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, “L...
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Where there is a way or a path, it’s someone else's way.
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Of all the forms of māyā that of woman is supreme.
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Don’t think of what’s being said, but of what’s talking. Malice? Ignorance? Pride? Love?   Th...
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The spirit is the bouquet of nature.
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The call is to leave a certain social situation, move into your own loneliness and find the jewel, t...
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And so we have…this critical problem as human beings of seeing to it that the mythology—the cons...
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The distance of your love is the distance of your life.   Love is exactly as strong as life.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.   You really don’t have a sacre...
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Vegetarianism is the first turning away from life, because life lives on lives. Vegetarians are just...
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In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choo...
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You should be willing to be eaten also. You are food body.
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In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to th...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.
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The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer d...
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Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poign...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The best way to help mankind is through the perfection of yourself.
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We must be willing to get rid of
the life we’ve planned, so as to have
the life that is ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Awe is what moves us forward.
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Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
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One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to th...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him o...
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Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
t...
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[I have no doubt that I stand here at the very center of creation. Every fir tree, each of its needl...
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I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives sp...
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You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. Yo...
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We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner val...
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
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If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, w...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
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If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your ow...
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They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point ...
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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

We must be willing to get rid of the l...
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You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.
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