American - Author | March 26, 1904 - October 31, 1987
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell
DreamsMythsPublicPrivate
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.
LoveMarriageSpiritualIdentityEnd
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
TransformationThinkingQuitOwnOur
Love is a friendship set to music.
FriendshipLoveMusicLove IsSet
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
LifeYouPrivilegeBeingLifetime
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
LiveSadJoyWorldChooseCure
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.
ValueDoingAliveAchieveForget
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.
LifeSeaExperienceUniqueLandOut
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.
WorkLiveMoneyJobThinkPerson
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
LifeExperiencePeopleBelieveAlive
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
GodSimpleReligionThoughtMetaphor
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?
HumanityYouHumanOutSystemGoing
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Joseph Campbell quotes