Quotes by Joseph Campbell

“When you make the sacrifice in marriage, youre sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.”

“When people get married because they think its a long-time love affair, theyll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.”

“Marriage is not a noun; its a verb. It isnt something you get. Its something you do. Its the way you love your partner every day.”

“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’t that. That is a relationship of pleasure, and when it gets to be unpleasurable , it’s off. But a marriage is a life commitment, and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life. If marriage is not the prime concern, you are not married.”

“I know some good marriages - marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other”

“The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated Decembe”

“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. Its as simple as that.”

“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”

“The warriors approach is to say yes to life: yea to it all.”

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

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

“The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive”

“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 — not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss.”

“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.”

“All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless of whether this truth serves or hinders the survival purpose of a given society. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.”

“We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning of the spirit or inspired. Its about letting Gods light shine through us. Its about a sparkle in people that money cant buy. Its an invisible energy with visible effects. To let go, to just love, is not to fade into the wallpaper. Quite the contrary, its when we truly become bright. Were letting our own light shine.”

“Be born anywhere, little embyro novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of salvation. Go out and be born among the gypsies or thieves or among happy workaday people who live in the sun and do not think about their souls.”

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

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

If the path before you is clear, youre probably on someone elses.