Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell On His Life & Work Quotes
You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.
Passion makes most psychiatrists nervous
The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence.
A mythological image that has to be explained to the brain is not working.
The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.
Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.
The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.
When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.
Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.
