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
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we… — 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
"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is." — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they… — 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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