God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhere you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
-
-
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 -
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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 be living, is the one that you will be living.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL