You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion... The hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence;… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship. You become mature when… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it's probably someone else's. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things. — 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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