Joseph Campbell

Religon is misunderstood mythology

— Joseph Campbell

If we fix on the old, we get stuck.

— Joseph Campbell

The place to find is within yourself.

— Joseph Campbell

Awe is what moves us forward.

— Joseph Campbell

You are the Hero of your own Story.

— Joseph Campbell

Love is perfect kindness.

— Joseph Campbell

Love is exactly as strong as life.

— Joseph Campbell

Do what gives you bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.

— Joseph Campbell

Regrets are illuminations come too late.

— Joseph Campbell

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

— Joseph Campbell

The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.

— Joseph Campbell

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

— Joseph Campbell

The perfect human being is uninteresting.

— Joseph Campbell

We save the world by being alive ourselves.

— Joseph Campbell

The best we can do is lean towards the light.

— Joseph Campbell

“the society that cherishes and keeps its myths alive will be nourished from the soundest, richest strata of the human spirit.”

— Joseph Campbell

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

— Joseph Campbell

Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

— Joseph Campbell

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being…

— Joseph Campbell

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and…

— Joseph Campbell

When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the…

— Joseph Campbell

“The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it.”

— Joseph Campbell

Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.

— Joseph Campbell

“The position of the palms together- this we use when we pray, do we not? That is a greeting that says that…

— Joseph Campbell

The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide…

— Joseph Campbell

The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary…

— Joseph Campbell

“And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we…

— Joseph Campbell

There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence;…

— Joseph Campbell

No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the…

— Joseph Campbell

The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed by a single being in…

— Joseph Campbell

The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the…

— Joseph Campbell

For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces,…

— Joseph Campbell

We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the…

— Joseph Campbell

“Willed introversion, in fact, is one of the classic implements of creative genius and can be employed as a deliberate device. It…

— Joseph Campbell

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult…

— Joseph Campbell

Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you…

— Joseph Campbell

What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to…

— Joseph Campbell

“There is a passage in the Old French Queste del Saint Graal that epitomizes the true spirit of Western man. It tells…

— Joseph Campbell

I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience…

— Joseph Campbell