Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking… — 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
If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all. — 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
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60). — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the… — 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
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut… — 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
You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done. — 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
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. — 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
Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally. — 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