I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“All of the great mythologies and much of the mythic story-telling of the world are from the male point of view. When… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Myth basically serves four functions. The first is the mystical function,... realizing what a wonder the universe is, and what a wonder… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Some things die after they born, others born after they die. myths are public dreams, dreams are privet myths...” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“And what it [a future myth] will have to deal with will be exactly what all myths have dealt with – the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — 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. The function… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. — 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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