Joseph Campbell Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

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

“The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.”

“When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.”

“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”