When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The real important function of the church is to present the symbol, to perform the rite, to let you behold this divine… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What is unknown is the fulfillment of your own unique life, the likes of which has never existed on earth. And you… — 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
The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you… — 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
The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's. Each of us has to find his own way. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . .… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In the field of consciousness research-and also in physics and astronomy-we are breaking past the cause-and-effect, mechanistic way of interpreting things. In… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Sometimes the serpent is represented as a circle eating its own tail. That’s an image of life. Life sheds one generation after… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60). — 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
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way. — 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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