Joseph Campbell Quotes
Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that's waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don't make sense.
When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.
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 symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.
The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings
The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.
Awe is what moves us forward.
When I was in India I met and conversed briefly with Shri Atmananda Guru of Trivandrum, and the question he gave me to ponder was this: 'Where are you between two thoughts?
Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.
A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.
Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.
Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object.
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.
Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's. Each of us has to find his own way.
Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.
The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul.
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.
There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.
Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.
The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.
The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.