Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Deep down inside, we don't seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience. — 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
If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life. — 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
The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you go through life ... it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.'… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The battlefield is symbolic of the field of life, where every creature lives on the death of another. A realization of the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Since you came to birth in this world at this time, in this place, and with this particular destiny, it was this… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Life, in both its knowing and its doing, has become today a "free fall," so to say, into the next minute, into… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The image that comes to mind is a boxing ring. There are times when...you just want that bell to ring, but you're… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. — 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