Consciousness Quotes by Joseph Campbell

I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with…

— 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…

— Joseph Campbell

I always tell my students follow your bliss. When you have that feeling then stay with it and don't let anyone throw…

— Joseph Campbell

Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.

— Joseph Campbell

We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth.

— Joseph Campbell

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

— Joseph Campbell

The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is…

— Joseph Campbell

Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual…

— Joseph Campbell

If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else,…

— Joseph Campbell

You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that…

— Joseph Campbell

The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy…

— Joseph Campbell

Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from…

— Joseph Campbell

There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one…

— Joseph Campbell

The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad…

— Joseph Campbell

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

When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own…

— Joseph Campbell

A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since…

— Joseph Campbell

In the field of consciousness research-and also in physics and astronomy-we are breaking past the cause-and-effect, mechanistic way of interpreting things. In…

— Joseph Campbell

In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the…

— Joseph Campbell

This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify…

— Joseph Campbell