Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience;… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your… — 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
The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you have the guts to follow the risk...if one follows what I call one's "bliss" - the thing that really gets… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your… — 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
I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Just think, Vishnu sleeps in the cosmic ocean, and the lotus of the universe grows from his navel. On the lotus sits… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The idea of the supernatural as being something over and above the natural is a killing idea. In the Middle Ages this… — 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
“There is an important idea in Nietzsche, of Amor fati , the "love of your fate," which is in fact your life.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“When the Buddha declares there is escape from sorrow, the escape is Nirvana, which is not a place, like heaven, but a… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I don't believe people are searching for the meaning of life. I believe they are searching for that feeling of being alive. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“anyone continually knitting his life into contexts of intention, import, and clarifications of meaning will in the end find that he has… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
..enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of… — 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
