Quotes from Joseph Campbell

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

Seek to know the power that is within you.

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.

All religions are true but none are literal.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

You have to learn to recognize your own depths.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

The warrior's approach is to say 'yes' to life: 'yes' to it all.

If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.