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

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
Joseph Campbell

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell

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

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

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