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 CAMPBELLThe god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
-
-
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
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.
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 -
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL