The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The world is full of people that have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only their neighbors to learn what they… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are… — 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
But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The essence of oneself and the essence of the world: these two are one. [ The aim is not to see, but… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us, the labyrinth… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The dreamer and his dream are the same...the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it… — 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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