Joseph Campbell
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.Collection: Wisdom
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.Collection: Moving
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Religion
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.Collection: Inspirational
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.Collection: Marriage
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.Collection: Inspirational
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.Collection: Work
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.Collection: Inspirational
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.Collection: Experience
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.Collection: God
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.Collection: Best
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.Collection: Experience
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.Collection: Computers
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.Collection: Marriage
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.Collection: Nature
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.Collection: Life
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.Collection: Sad
Love is a friendship set to music.Collection: Friendship
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.Collection: Life
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.Collection: Dreams
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.Collection: Positive
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives you life, breadth, and depth.Collection: Thinking
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.Collection: Inspirational
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.Collection: Path
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.Collection: Hands
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.Collection: Inspirational
Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called "the love of your fate." Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, "This is what I need." It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment-not discouragement-you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.Collection: Success
People forget facts, but they remember stories.Collection: People
No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.Collection: Yoga
Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the worldCollection: Life
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.Collection: Mean
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.Collection: Art
The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.Collection: Caves
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end. The exclusivism of there being only one way in which we can be saved, the idea that there is a single religious group that is in sole possession of the truth—that is the world as we know it that must pass away. What is the kingdom? It lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us.Collection: Religious
The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.Collection: Goal
Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which is available to his senses. There is a pertinent saying in one of the Upanishads: When before the beauty of a sunset or of a mountain you pause and exclaim, ‘Ah,’ you are participating in divinity. Such a moment of participation involves a realization of the wonder and sheer beauty of existence. People living in the world of nature experience such moments every day. They live in the recognition of something there that is much greater than the human dimension.Collection: Inspirational
It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that touches our will system. In Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea he speaks of music as the sound that awakens the will. The rhythm of the music awakens certain life rhythms, ways of living and experiencing life. So it's an awakener of life.Collection: Inspirational
Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.Collection: Adventure
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.Collection: Adventure
Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.Collection: People
You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.Collection: Real
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.Collection: Narrative
If you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen.Collection: Use