One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and… — 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
The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In the Orient the ultimate divine mystery is sought beyond all human categories of thought and feeling, beyond names and forms, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute. ...Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
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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