Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“There is an important idea in Nietzsche, of Amor fati , the "love of your fate," which is in fact your life.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives… — 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
“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't even a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The idea of the supernatural as being something over and above the natural is a killing idea. In the Middle Ages this… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities. — 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
What is unknown is the fulfillment of your own unique life, the likes of which has never existed on earth. And you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off. Getting a… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Men sometimes confess they love war because it puts them in touch with the experience of being alive. In going to the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed. — 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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