black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

Joseph Campbell

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Beyond Fact Information
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Devil Encounter God Transformation
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Burn Happiness Pain Place
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Capability God Oneself Worship
The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Compassion Journey Purpose Reach Yourself
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

Journey Path Way 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
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Dreams Myth Privacy Public
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
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

End Fact Ignorance Ourselves
Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Adventure Ego Fulfill Gift Mystery Yourself
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Darkness Life Lost Need
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Life Meaning Question 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
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Compassionate Fundamental Religious Thinking Yourself
You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Creativity Leaving Rule Yourself

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Joseph Campbell Quotes