The real important function of the church is to present the symbol, to perform the rite, to let you behold this divine… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render... the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial. — 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
The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . .… — 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
Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel. — 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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