Joseph Campbell

“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”

“Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.”

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

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

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”

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

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

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

“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.”

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

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

“Love is a friendship set to music.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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