Poems of Joseph Campbell
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph AddisonWhen we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Joseph CampbellAt such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
Joseph CampbellEternity 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 have the experience.
Joseph CampbellIs 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?
Joseph CampbellWhen 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.
Joseph CampbellI don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph CampbellParticipate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Joseph CampbellWhen you see the Earth from space, you don't see any divisions of nation-states there. This may be the symbol of the new mythology to come; this is the country we will celebrate, and these are the people we are one with.
Joseph CampbellWhen you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph CampbellOut of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.
Joseph CampbellLife is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is Whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
Joseph CampbellI, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.
Alex CampbellWhen you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
Joseph CampbellGod is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph CampbellThe goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph CampbellOne way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
Joseph CampbellWe must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph CampbellIf you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
Joseph CampbellYou 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.
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