The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is… — 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
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
Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — 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 psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the… — 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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