Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Our life has become so economic and practical in its orientation that, as you get older, the claims of the moment upon… — 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
“Life is, in its very essence and character, a terrible mystery—this whole business of living by killing and eating. But it is… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The best part of the Western tradition has included a recognition of and respect for the individual as a living entity. The… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you have the guts to follow the risk...if one follows what I call one's "bliss" - the thing that really gets… — 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
We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life. — 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
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. — 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
If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along… — 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
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 battlefield is symbolic of the field of life, where every creature lives on the death of another. A realization of the… — 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
In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on. — 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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