Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. — 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
People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. — 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
..enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is… — 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
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
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship. — 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
Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology. — 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
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
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
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
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
How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a… — 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
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
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
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… — 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
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. — 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
Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself. — 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
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
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
So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system. — 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
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was… — 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
