Joseph Campbell Quotes

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

I came to the conclusion that unless I found myself and became the change I wanted to see in the world - as Gandhi said - I couldn't contribute much, nor would there be anything fulfilling or meaningful in my life. So I went on a spiritual search.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Marrying Martin and the movement perfected my journey of discovery, soothed my yearning to pour out the values and vision within my soul.

Every person can reach a full life.

The purpose of life is to explore one's own life to its fullest, to explore all dimensions.

The journey is the reward

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.

It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance of taking us toward the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need

Finding your purpose may be a lifelong pursuit or you may have discovered it when you were 5 years old. There's no absolute timeline for anyone. That's a good reason never to give up, to keep on discovering things every day.

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with!

I loved going along with Alice Steinbach as she goes off on this rare, wonderful adventure, an escape into discovering herself and some of the truly magical places in this world.

More than anything, it's been a transition into embracing my destiny. I have everything around me to be able to do this properly. Whether or not I was hiding from that early on, I think now it's great to feel that way. It's just the journey.

We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.

We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.

Your existence is evidence that this generation needs something that your life contains