Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you... Follow your bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence;… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events; they refer through historical events to spiritual or… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual… — 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,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The real important function of the church is to present the symbol, to perform the rite, to let you behold this divine message in such a way that you are capable of experiencing it. What the relationship of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost to each other might be, in technical terms, is not half important as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share
We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what… — 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
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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