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Joseph Campbell was an American mythologist, writer, and lecturer.
* He was born in White Plains, New York, in 1904.
* He studied comparative mythology at Columbia University and the University of Paris.
* His best-known work is The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which explores the common themes of world mythology.
* He taught at Sarah Lawrence College for many years.
* He died in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1987.
* His work has had a major influence on popular culture, including films such as Star Wars and The Matrix.
* He is considered one of the most important mythologists of the 20th century.

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

Joseph Campbell

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

Joseph Campbell

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

Joseph Campbell

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

Joseph Campbell

Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

Joseph Campbell

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

Joseph Campbell

You enter the forestat the darkest point,where there is no path.Where there is a way or path,it is someone else's path.You are not on your own path.If you follow someone else's way,you are not going to realizeyour potential.

Joseph Campbell

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

Joseph Campbell

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

Joseph Campbell

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.

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

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

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