Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we’re a… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There have been systems of religion where the mother is the prime parent, the source, and she's really a more immediate parent… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get… — 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
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
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 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
The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and… — 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
Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Just think, Vishnu sleeps in the cosmic ocean, and the lotus of the universe grows from his navel. On the lotus sits… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Following your bliss is not self-indulgent, but vital; your whole physical system knows that this is the way to be alive in… — 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
And then he says, "The writer must be true to truth." And that's a killer, because the only way you can describe… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The importance of the End of time is as ... a psychological event ... When you have seen the radiance of eternity… — 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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