Books Quote by Joseph Campbell

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

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 the wave…

— Joseph Campbell

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

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

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

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 voice of…

— 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 you should…

— 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 a poem…

— Joseph Campbell