Joseph Campbell

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

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

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Love is a friendship set to music.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

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.

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Love thine enemies because they are the instruments to your destiny.

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

Is 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?

The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

One 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.

Heroism is a matter of integrity - becoming more and more at each step ourselves.

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn

Life is like arriving late for a movie having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends

Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography history or science it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or place. Furthermore it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history mythology is absurd.

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.

Everybody's going to be looking at these little bits and pieces and deciding what they like and don't like. There's enough attractive pieces in that business that quite a few people will express an interest.

The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.

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

The goal is to live with godlike composure on the full rush of energy like Dionysus riding the leopard without being torn to pieces.

To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement but the real deep life-filling bliss.

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

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.

Computers are like Old Testament gods, lots of rules and no mercy.

Original Experience has not been interpreted for you and so you

If you follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track which has been there all the while waiting for you and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living

It Takes Courage To Do What You Want

When Boeing goes down it goes down for several years

The world is full of people that have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only their neighbors to learn what they ought to do how they ought to behave and what the values are they should be living for.

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

I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

People say that what their seeking is a meaning for life.... I think that what we are seeking is an experience of being alive so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.

Follow your bliss

Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.

The demon that you can swallow gives you it

If you follow your bliss doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

It's a little too early to tell what happened ... This had the appearance of a well-planned and well-negotiated deal that was designed to be released on Monday.

The new company is an aerospace colossus.

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn

The courage to face the trials and to bring... possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience that is the hero's deed. We have only to follow the heros path and where we had thought to find abomination we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves... Where we had thought to travel outward we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone we will be with all the world.

[Space dedicated to creativity is the goal of artists of all kinds. Virginia Woolf lauded the] room of one's own ... 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. . . This is the place of creative incubation . . . If you have a sacred place and use it something eventually will happen.

At 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.

If You Are On Your Own Path Things Are Going To Come To You. Since It Is Your Own Path & No One Has Ever Been On It Before there

Find a place inside where there's joy and the joy will burn out the pain.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows but we can choose to live in joy.

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy when you are really happy

[I have no doubt that I stand here at the very center of creation. Every fir tree each of its needles the movement of wind all that I perceive and even more that I don't all resonate with a vital hum. It is the hum of the universe what the Chinese call the ten thousand things all of them speaking out saying precisely nothing. Each is its own center the exact place where the world begins.] The center is where you are standing ... and the other center is where I am standing.

Given that we are still in early 2006 the 2007 guidance is likely to be conservative with higher-than-2006 airplane deliveries better margins at both [Boeing Commercial Airplanes] and [Integrated Defense Systems] strong cash flow but low single-digit top line growth for its defense business.

Airbus really escaped unscathed in this cycle ... Boeing has a monopoly with the big planes in Asia. (It) has really made a living out there, the Asian flu affects Boeing more than Airbus.

We do not think the Boeing IAM workers will strike when their contract expires on Sept. 2.

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

It was a combination of a high rate of speed and an inexperienced driver. It's an unbelievable tragedy.

Any life career that you choose in following your bliss should be chosen with that sense

However if we are wrong and there is a strike we would expect BA shares to trade down by $2 to $4 per share and we would consider that a buying opportunity.

I had my heart set on three things: One the choral office, two the habit, and community life. We spend a lot of time together. We work together eat together pray together

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

A one sentence definition of mythology? "Mythology" is what we call someone else's religion

As a white candle In a holy place So is the beauty Of an aged face

Original Experience has not been interpreted for you and so you

Life 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.

Words are always qualifications and limitations. That's why it is a peak experience to break past all that every now and then and to realize "Oh...... ah.....

When 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.

The warrior's approach is to say "yes" to life: "yea" to it all.

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

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

When 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.

Smiths' share price targets range from down 4 percent to 20 gain highlighting a debate about what Smiths should be worth.

The secret cause of all suffering is mortality itself which is the prime condition of life. It cannot be denied if life is to be affirmed.

You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ or the miracles don't make sense.

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy when you are really happy

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.

My sense is that the [European Commission]'s grievances or the things that they would like fixed are the kinds of things that Boeing may be able to find a way around as long as the [EC] doesn't get too unreasonable.

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

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

When we talk about settling the world's problems we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

I've heard youngsters use some of George Lucas' terms -- "the Force" and "the dark side." So it must be hitting somewhere. It's a good sound teaching I would say.

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

You don't understand death you learn to acquiesce in death.

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

I don't have to have faith I have experience.

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

God is Within You! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing about you will be able to live with it and affirm it perhaps even enjoy it as your life.

Myths are public dreams dreams are private myths.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Our demons are out own limitations which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit...each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.

If you realize what the real problem is - losing yourself - you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

We just don't know very much about Jesus. All we know are four contradictory texts that purport to tell us what he said and did.

If you assume these 17 000 guys go away and never come back it'd make a difference. But if they come back in two weeks rather than one week I don't see it making a difference. They don't even have a strike fund. I'm a long way from getting worried.

At best spiritual voices help us replace madness with clarity & violence, with compassion and peace. But we will live up to the promise only if we overcome the temptation to promote our own narrow comfort and individual peace of mind. If we fail this challenge we will not get a spiritual "new age" but a spiritual dead end.