For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“CAMPBELL: Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the… — 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
Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path. — 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
Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy. — 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
You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
And then he says, "The writer must be true to truth." And that's a killer, because the only way you can describe… — 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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