The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
..enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is… — 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
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other… — 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
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half… — 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
My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big… — 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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