In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What you have to do, you do with play. The universe is God’s play. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The mighty hero of extraordinary powers, able to lift Mount Govardhan on a finger, and to fill himself with the terrible glory… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We know that Jesus could not have ascended to heaven because there is no physical heaven anywhere in the universe. Even ascending… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed by a single being in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In the older view the goddess Universe was alive, herself organically the Earth, the horizon, and the heavens. Now she is dead,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of… — 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
Could God exist if nobody else did? No. That’s why gods are very avid for worshipers. If there is nobody to worship… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Just think, Vishnu sleeps in the cosmic ocean, and the lotus of the universe grows from his navel. On the lotus sits… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which… — 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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