Joseph Campbell Famous Quotes



What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

"Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter... This is it... If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience here's the place to have the experience."

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

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

"You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be."


Joseph Campbell Quotations






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E B White

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"There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come."
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