Dreams Quotes by Joseph Campbell

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

— Joseph Campbell

The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.

— Joseph Campbell

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream.

— Joseph Campbell

Myth is the public dream, and dream is the private myth.

— Joseph Campbell

“Some things die after they born, others born after they die. myths are public dreams, dreams are privet myths...”

— Joseph Campbell

The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view,…

— Joseph Campbell

The dreamer and his dream are the same...the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.

— Joseph Campbell

[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.

— Joseph Campbell

Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . .…

— Joseph Campbell

In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.

— Joseph Campbell

The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed by a single being in…

— Joseph Campbell

The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide…

— Joseph Campbell

“I had to climb a mountain. There were all kinds of obstacles in the way. I had now to jump over a…

— Joseph Campbell

“The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like all who have elected to follow, not the safely marked general highways of…

— Joseph Campbell

Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics…

— Joseph Campbell

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen.…

— Joseph Campbell

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the…

— Joseph Campbell

Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to…

— Joseph Campbell

“But if we are to grasp the full value of the materials, we must note that myths are not exactly comparable to…

— Joseph Campbell

“Heaven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of…

— Joseph Campbell

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

The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function…

— Joseph Campbell

One cannot predict the next mythology any more than one can predict tonight's dream; for a mythology is not an ideology. It…

— Joseph Campbell

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as…

— Joseph Campbell

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

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

— Joseph Campbell

The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and…

— 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