The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60). — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
