Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is." — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship. — 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
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required. — 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
[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
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
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
The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors… — 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
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
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us... — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves — 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
“There was a wonderful old man [...] who had a piece of property [...] he would rent out for twenty dollards a… — 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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