--- title: "7 Accord Quotes By Joseph Campbell" description: "7 Accord quotes by Joseph Campbell. Plus more from Joseph Campbell and more Accord sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e78/joseph-campbell-300_accord_we-have-today-to-learn-to-get-back-into_389438.png" --- > [We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/we-have-today-to-learn-to-get-back-into-accord-with-the-wisdom-of/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e78/joseph-campbell-300_accord_we-have-today-to-learn-to-get-back-into_389438.png) > [When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/when-you-are-in-accord-with-nature-nature-will-yield-its-bounty-this/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/425/joseph-campbell-300_accord_when-you-are-in-accord-with-nature-natur_773443.jpg) > [The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-myth-is-the-public-domain-and-the-dream-is-the-private-myth-if/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e57/joseph-campbell-300_accord_the-myth-is-the-public-domain-and-the-dr_1234805.jpg) > [A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/a-ritual-is-the-enactment-of-a-myth-and-by-participating-in-the-2/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/902/joseph-campbell-300_accord_a-ritual-is-the-enactment-of-a-myth-and_1645372.png) > [Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/thinking-in-mythological-terms-helps-to-put-you-in-accord-with-the/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/372/joseph-campbell-300_able_thinking-in-mythological-terms-helps-to_1972951.png) > [We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/we-have-today-to-learn-to-get-back-into-accord-with-the-wisdom-of-2/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e10/joseph-campbell-300_accord_we-have-today-to-learn-to-get-back-into_2226360.png) > [For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/for-those-in-whom-a-local-mythology-still-works-there-is-an/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7bc/joseph-campbell-300_accord_for-those-in-whom-a-local-mythology-stil_2377889.png) ## Other authors on Accord ## More by Joseph Campbell > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/if-a-person-does-not-listen-to-the-demands-of-their-own-spiritual-and/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-last-act-in-the-biography-of-the-hero-is-that-of-the-death-or/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-privilege-of-a-lifetime-is-being-who-you-are/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-eternal-principle-which-never-was-born-never-will-die-it-is-in/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/how-do-you-find-the-divine-power-in-yourself-the-word-enthusiasm/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/what-we-re-learning-in-our-schools-is-not-the-wisdom-of-life-we-re/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-fall-of-your-soul-from-perfection-into-duality-was-naturally/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/so-that-s-what-destiny-is-simply-the-fulfillment-of-the-potentialites/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/your-ego-is-your-embodiment-and-your-self-is-your-potentiality-and/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/when-you-follow-your-bliss-a-kind-of-track-opens-up-that-s-always/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [The best we can do is lean towards the light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-best-we-can-do-is-lean-towards-the-light/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/i-think-of-mythology-as-the-homeland-of-the-muses-the-inspirers-of/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [When you are falling --- Dive!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/when-you-are-falling-dive/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/we-re-all-seeking-the-rapture-of-being-alive/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/both-the-artist-and-the-lover-know-that-perfection-is-not-loveable-it/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/accord/joseph-campbell/#itemlist", "name": "7 Accord Quotes By Joseph Campbell", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea. To say that divinity informs the world and all things is condemned as pantheism. But pantheism is a misleading word. It suggests that a personal god is supposed to inhabit the world, but that is not the idea at all. The idea is trans-theological. 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