All Joseph Campbell Quotes
- I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing. Compassion
- The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces. Composure
- Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that… Character
- The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of… Departure
- If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping. Find
- The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, 'Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to… Beauty
- What you have to do, you do with play. The universe is God’s play. God
- The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they… Adventure
- The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others. Aim
- Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts,… Alive
- The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of… Compassion
- Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves. Inspirational
- So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system. Destiny
- When you are falling --- Dive! Dive
- Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities. Congealed
- All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all… All
- It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward. Been
- The best we can do is lean towards the light. Best
- I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize Heart
- The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided from the heavens,… Apocalypse
- The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on… All
- When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else. Doors
- Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not.… Crisis
- Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path. Every Step
- Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion. Beyond