“[The Christian story] amounts to a refusal to affirm life. In the biblical tradition we have inherited, life is corrupt, and every… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“A constant image [in myths] is that of the conflict of the eagle and the serpent. The serpent bound to the earth,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The ultimate dreamer is Vishnu floating on the cosmic Milky Ocean, couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta, the meaning… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Sometimes the serpent is represented as a circle eating its own tail. That’s an image of life. Life sheds one generation after… — 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
![“[The Christian story] amounts to a refusal to affirm life. In the biblical tradition we have inherited, life is corrupt, and every natural impulse is sinful unless it has been circumcised or baptized. The serpent was the one who brought sin into the wold. And the woman was the one who handed the…” quote by Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/82b/joseph-campbell-300_adam_the-christian-story-amounts-to-a-refusal_170106.jpg)
![“A constant image [in myths] is that of the conflict of the eagle and the serpent. The serpent bound to the earth, the eagle in spiritual flight – isn't that conflict something we all experience? And then, when the two amalgamate, we get a wonderful dragon, a serpent with wings.” quote by Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5fd/joseph-campbell-300_serpent_a-constant-image-in-myths-is-that-of-the_1004272.jpg)
