Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The big moment in the medieval myth is the awaking of the heart to compassion, the transformation of passion into compassion.... St.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . .… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed by a single being in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“There must always remain, however, from the standpoint of normal waking consciousness, a certain baffling inconsistency between the wisdom brought forth from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed. — 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
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 Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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