Quotes By Author: Joseph Campbell

“Myth is what we call other people’s religion.”

“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.”

“All religions are true but none are literal.”

“The fates lead him who will; him who won’t they drag.”

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

“Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.”

“Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.”

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

“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”

“The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.”

“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”

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