Selected quotations of 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.”

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

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

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

“I don’t have to have faith, I have experience.”

“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”

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

“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.”

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