All Joseph Campbell Quotes
- I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery. Important
- Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now… Anywhere
- You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included… Breadth
- If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that… Been
- Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe. Ears
- Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now. Dimension
- The dance is the highest symbol of life itself. Dance
- Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no… Adventure
- Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one. All
- Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the… Achieve
- In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours. Choose
- Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience… Across
- I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All… All
- Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be. Exciting
- One cannot predict the next mythology any more than one can predict tonight's dream; for a mythology is not an ideology. It is not something… Any
- What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act -… Act
- The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into… Basic
- To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the… Analysis
- There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that… Activate
- When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own consciousness now...recognizi ng… Accord
- Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we’re a match for the… Challenges
- We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one of flesh, the… All
- There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss. Bliss
- The influence of a vital being vitalizes. Funny
- We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is… Deities