If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules. — 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
You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life… — 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
“The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that… — 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
We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the… — 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
The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“And so the impulses of nature are what give authenticity to life, not obeying rules come from a supernatural authority, that’s the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. — 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
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
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 demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. — 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
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
..enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“anyone continually knitting his life into contexts of intention, import, and clarifications of meaning will in the end find that he has… — 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
Just think, Vishnu sleeps in the cosmic ocean, and the lotus of the universe grows from his navel. On the lotus sits… — 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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