The unfolding through time of all things from one is the simple message, finally, of every one of the creation myths reproduced… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since… — 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
“The multitude of men and women choose the less adventurous way of the comparatively unconscious civic and tribal routines. But these seekers,… — 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
Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The hero is the champion of things becoming, not of things become, because he is.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.... — 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
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.… — 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
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. — 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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