The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virtues of loyalty, temperance, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The ultimate dreamer is Vishnu floating on the cosmic Milky Ocean, couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta, the meaning… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday… — 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
The mighty hero of extraordinary powers, able to lift Mount Govardhan on a finger, and to fill himself with the terrible glory… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The privilege of a lifetime is beingwho you are.The goal of the hero tripdown to the jewel pointis to find those levels… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us, the labyrinth… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The hero is the champion of things becoming, not of things become, because he is.” — 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