At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Men sometimes confess they love war because it puts them in touch with the experience of being alive. In going to the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
God is within you! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The contemplation of the life thus should be undertaken as a meditation on one’s own immanent divinity, not as a prelude to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't even a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“How, in the contemporary period, can we evoke the imagery that communicates the most profound and most richly developed sense of experiencing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Life is, in its very essence and character, a terrible mystery—this whole business of living by killing and eating. But it is… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as… — 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
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You may have success in life, but then just think of it - what kind of life was it? What good was… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“[T]here is nothing to say about life. It has no meaning. You make meaning. If you want a meaning in your life,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off. Getting a… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Money is congealed energy and releasing it releases life possibilities ... Money experienced as life energy is indeed a meditation, and letting… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself… — 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
![“[T]here is nothing to say about life. It has no meaning. You make meaning. If you want a meaning in your life, find a meaning and bring it into your life, but life won't give you a meaning. Meaning is a concept. It is a notion of an end toward which you are going. The point of Buddhism is This Is…” quote by Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4a1/joseph-campbell-300_buddhism_t-here-is-nothing-to-say-about-life-it-h_119345.jpg)
