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
“The function of ritual and myth is to make possible, and then to facilitate, the jump—by analogy. Forms and conceptions that the… — 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
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
Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The function of ritual... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times. — 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
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