“Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“But if we are to grasp the full value of the materials, we must note that myths are not exactly comparable to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“To become—in Jung’s terms—individuated, to live as a released individual, one has to know how and when to put on and to… — 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
