Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us... — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The essence of oneself and the essence of the world: these two are one. [ The aim is not to see, but… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent… — 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