Joseph Campbell

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.
-Joseph Campbell

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
-Joseph Campbell

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
-Joseph Campbell

People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. 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.
-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

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.
-Joseph Campbell, Creative Mythology

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
-Joseph Campbell

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

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
-Joseph Campbell