Joseph Campbell

If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program,…

— Joseph Campbell

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

— Joseph Campbell

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

— Joseph Campbell

The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are…

— Joseph Campbell

How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic?…

— Joseph Campbell

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…

— Joseph Campbell

The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is…

— Joseph Campbell

So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.

— Joseph Campbell

Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the…

— Joseph Campbell

When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that…

— Joseph Campbell

The best we can do is lean towards the light.

— Joseph Campbell

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as…

— Joseph Campbell

When you are falling --- Dive!

— Joseph Campbell

We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.

— Joseph Campbell

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a…

— Joseph Campbell

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in…

— Joseph Campbell

Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)

— Joseph Campbell

The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.

— Joseph Campbell

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

— Joseph Campbell

Making the inner meet the outer is the function of the artist.

— Joseph Campbell

“The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like all who have elected to follow, not the safely marked general highways of…

— 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

The ground of being is the ground of our being, and when we simply turn outward, we see all of these little…

— Joseph Campbell

When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get…

— Joseph Campbell

First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination.

— Joseph Campbell