The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
And then he says, "The writer must be true to truth." And that's a killer, because the only way you can describe… — 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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