Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities. — 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
You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way. — 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
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
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
What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience. — 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
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
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
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
With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we… — 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
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
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
But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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
Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant. — 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
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What you have to do, you do with play. The universe is God’s play. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world. — 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
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
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
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
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
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
So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
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
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
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
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
