The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and… — 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
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation… — 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 the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. — 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
What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to… — 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
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of… — 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
Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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
Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“How, in the contemporary period, can we evoke the imagery that communicates the most profound and most richly developed sense of experiencing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The image that comes to mind is a boxing ring. There are times when...you just want that bell to ring, but you're… — 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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