black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

All we really want to do is dance.

Joseph Campbell

We’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

Influence Journey Person Save World
The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Journey Mystery Open Tear Yourself
The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Artist Function Problem Spiritual
There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Divine Live
I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Body Feeling Soul Stay Student Yourself
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

History Important True Yourself
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Authority Life Maturity Yourself
We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Achievement Alive Association Engagement Purpose
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

End Expectation Figure Life Movie Question
The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Fascination Fire Interest Mystery
If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Follow Life Oneself Yourself
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Illumination Late Regret
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Energy Human Manifestation Open Secret
If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

God Inspirational Patience Yourself
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Alive Believe Experience Life Meaning Myself People
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Beyond Carry Experience Function

All we really want to do is dance.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

All we really want to do is dance.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Joseph Campbell Quotes