Joseph Campbell Quotes

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


Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
Joseph Campbell 


The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell 


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


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



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.
Joseph Campbell 


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.
Joseph Campbell