Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMyths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhere you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLQuesting… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLife is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLet the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL