If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it's probably someone else's. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward. — 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
Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of… — 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
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
I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize — 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 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
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience;… — 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
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
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
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it. — 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
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 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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