Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk) — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The ultimate dreamer is Vishnu floating on the cosmic Milky Ocean, couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta, the meaning… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.'… — 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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