What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to… — 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
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
“The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class… — 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
One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You may have success in life, but then just think of it - what kind of life was it? What good was… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
God is within you! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of… — 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… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The contemplation of the life thus should be undertaken as a meditation on one’s own immanent divinity, not as a prelude to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“We're in our own world, and we're in the world that has been given us outside, and the problem is to achieve3… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Nirvana is right here, in the midst of the turmoil of life. It is the state you find when you are no… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Moyers: Then what does love have to do with morality? Campbell: Violates it…Insofar as love expresses itself, it is not expressing itself… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
So I think the Guru can be a delusion. But everything can be deluding. The thing central about the Guru in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The more challenging or threatening the situation or context to be assimilated and affirmed, the greater the stature of the person who… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,'… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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
I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The function of ritual... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it.” — 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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