--- title: "6 Transcendence Quotes By Joseph Campbell" description: "6 Transcendence quotes by Joseph Campbell. Plus more from Joseph Campbell and more Transcendence sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/831/joseph-campbell-300_accidents_the-happy-ending-of-the-fairy-tale-the-m_716677.png" --- > [The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-happy-ending-of-the-fairy-tale-the-myth-and-the-divine-comedy-of/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/831/joseph-campbell-300_accidents_the-happy-ending-of-the-fairy-tale-the-m_716677.png) > [The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-idea-of-the-bodhisattva-is-the-one-who-out-of-his-realization-of/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5a/joseph-campbell-300_bodhisattva_the-idea-of-the-bodhisattva-is-the-one-w_1105869.jpg) > [ \[Comedies\], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/comedies-in-the-ancient-world-were-regarded-as-of-a-higher-rank-than/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19d/joseph-campbell-300_ancient_comedies-in-the-ancient-world-were-regar_2396551.png) > [We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/we-keep-thinking-of-deity-as-a-kind-of-fact-somewhere-god-as-a-fact/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0db/joseph-campbell-300_deities_we-keep-thinking-of-deity-as-a-kind-of-f_2786569.jpg) > [There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/there-s-nothing-you-can-do-that-s-more-important-than-being-fulfilled/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ed/joseph-campbell-300_addiction_there-s-nothing-you-can-do-that-s-more-i_2836332.jpg) > [ \[Comedies\], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/comedies-in-the-ancient-world-were-regarded-as-of-a-higher-rank-than-2/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b9/joseph-campbell-300_ancient_comedies-in-the-ancient-world-were-regar_3109729.jpg) ## Other authors on Transcendence - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-abhijit-naskar-99.jpg) Abhijit Naskar 34 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/transcendence/abhijit-naskar/) - [Kamand Kojouri 9 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/transcendence/kamand-kojouri/) - [Michael Bassey Johnson 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/transcendence/michael-bassey-johnson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-karen-armstrong-55066.jpg) Karen Armstrong 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/transcendence/karen-armstrong/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rajneesh-77002.jpg) Rajneesh 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/transcendence/rajneesh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-tom-robbins-91549.jpg) Tom Robbins 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/transcendence/tom-robbins/) ## More by Joseph Campbell > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/if-a-person-does-not-listen-to-the-demands-of-their-own-spiritual-and/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-last-act-in-the-biography-of-the-hero-is-that-of-the-death-or/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-privilege-of-a-lifetime-is-being-who-you-are/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-eternal-principle-which-never-was-born-never-will-die-it-is-in/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/how-do-you-find-the-divine-power-in-yourself-the-word-enthusiasm/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/what-we-re-learning-in-our-schools-is-not-the-wisdom-of-life-we-re/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-fall-of-your-soul-from-perfection-into-duality-was-naturally/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/so-that-s-what-destiny-is-simply-the-fulfillment-of-the-potentialites/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/your-ego-is-your-embodiment-and-your-self-is-your-potentiality-and/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/when-you-follow-your-bliss-a-kind-of-track-opens-up-that-s-always/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [The best we can do is lean towards the light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-best-we-can-do-is-lean-towards-the-light/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/i-think-of-mythology-as-the-homeland-of-the-muses-the-inspirers-of/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [When you are falling --- Dive!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/when-you-are-falling-dive/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/we-re-all-seeking-the-rapture-of-being-alive/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) > [Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/both-the-artist-and-the-lover-know-that-perfection-is-not-loveable-it/) [Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/transcendence/joseph-campbell/#itemlist", "name": "6 Transcendence Quotes By Joseph Campbell", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. The objective world remains what it was, but, because of a shift of emphasis within the subject, is beheld as though transformed. 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