When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from… — 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
Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the… — 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
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
The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes… — 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
The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.… — 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 seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It… — 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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