Top Ten Joseph Campbell Quotes

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.

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.

Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter..

This is it... If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here's the place to

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are

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

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought

It's as simple as that.

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

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

Myths are public dreams, dreams are privte myths.