You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. — 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
“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
If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the… — 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
You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the… — 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
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
Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. — 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
When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have… — 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
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
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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