If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” — 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
The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of… — 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
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed. — 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
“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
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
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
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
“As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off. Getting a… — 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
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
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
“Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't even a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension… — 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… — 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
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
This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The idea of the supernatural as being something over and above the natural is a killing idea. In the Middle Ages this… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — 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
“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
“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
Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. — 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
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
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
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
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
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
So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
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
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
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
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
