The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life… — 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
The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.'… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience… — 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
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
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Since you came to birth in this world at this time, in this place, and with this particular destiny, it was this… — 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
Sometimes the serpent is represented as a circle eating its own tail. That’s an image of life. Life sheds one generation after… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship. You become mature when… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There's something inside you that knows when you're in the center, that knows when you're on the beam or off the beam.… — 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,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize… — 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
When you go through life ... it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in… — 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
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The mystery of life is beyond all human conception. Everything we know is within the terminology of the concepts of being and… — 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
“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track which has been there all the while waiting for… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more… — 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
All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing… — 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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