Joseph Campbell

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

— Joseph Campbell

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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Joseph Campbell

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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

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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. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

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