God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When I was in India I met and conversed briefly with Shri Atmananda Guru of Trivandrum, and the question he gave me… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that… — 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
This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify… — 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
In the field of consciousness research-and also in physics and astronomy-we are breaking past the cause-and-effect, mechanistic way of interpreting things. In… — 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
“Willed introversion, in fact, is one of the classic implements of creative genius and can be employed as a deliberate device. It drives the psychic energies into depth and activates the lost continent of unconscious infantile and archetypal images. The result, of course, may be a disintegration of consciousness more or less complete (neurosis, psychosis: the plight of spellbound Daphne);… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
“The asceticism of the medieval saints and of the yogis of India, the Hellenistic mystery initiations, the ancient philosophies of the East and of the West, are techniques for the shifting of the emphasis of individual consciousness away from the garments. The preliminary meditations of the aspirant detach his mind and sentiments from the accidents of life and drive him… — 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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