The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The ground of being is the ground of our being, and when we simply turn outward, we see all of these little… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of… — 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
The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from… — 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
Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you… — 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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