People forget facts, but they remember stories.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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.
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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