black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

Joseph Campbell

You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Dance Enjoyment Meaning Yourself
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Art Carry Wings Yourself
It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Demon Himself Man Tame World
You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Day Heart Home Mindset Place Promise Yourself
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

Life Move Order Planning Time Wait Yourself
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Alive God Inspirational Life Pain Suffering
When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

God Inspirational Motivational Open Path True Yourself
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Burn Happiness Pain Place
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
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
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
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 psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Delight Psycology Water
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
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Old Oneself Proverb Skin
There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Fulfill Important Personal Realization Transcendence Yourself

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Joseph Campbell Quotes