Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities. — 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
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 secret cause of all suffering,” he said, “is mortality itself, which is the prime condition of life. It cannot be denied… — 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
You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure… — 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
Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
So I think the Guru can be a delusion. But everything can be deluding. The thing central about the Guru in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“CAMPBELL: The individual has to find an aspect of myth that relates to his own life. Myth basically serves four functions. The… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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
“Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Life, in both its knowing and its doing, has become today a "free fall," so to say, into the next minute, into… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. — 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
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. — 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
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. — 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
