“There must always remain, however, from the standpoint of normal waking consciousness, a certain baffling inconsistency between the wisdom brought forth from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“... all that we see is but the reflex of a power that endures, untouched by the pain... a transcendent anonymity regarding… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Eternity is not a long time; rather, it is another dimension. It is that dimension to which time-thinking shuts us. And so… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you go through life ... it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment. — 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
Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us, the labyrinth… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Since you came to birth in this world at this time, in this place, and with this particular destiny, it was this… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human spirit -- which… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The image that comes to mind is a boxing ring. There are times when...you just want that bell to ring, but you're… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us... — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
She was ... the arch personification of the power of Space, Time, and Matter, within whose bound all beings arise and die:… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The importance of the End of time is as ... a psychological event ... When you have seen the radiance of eternity… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of,… — 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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