The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you… — 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
Could God exist if nobody else did? No. That’s why gods are very avid for worshipers. If there is nobody to worship… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends… — 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 world is full of people that have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only their neighbors to learn what they… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think… — 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
When you see the earth from the moon, you don't see any divisions there of nations or states. This might be the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular… — 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
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
Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery. — 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
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
![“The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally…” quote by Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9ff/joseph-campbell-300_biblical_the-fall-of-your-soul-from-perfection-in_22526.jpg)
