Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Some things die after they born, others born after they die. myths are public dreams, dreams are privet myths...” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the… — 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
“facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same… — 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
Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other… — 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
Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story… — 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
“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
Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The unfolding through time of all things from one is the simple message, finally, of every one of the creation myths reproduced… — 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